My friend DC, now nearly 90 years old, collected early Christian types from the fourth C. AD. He went to shows decades ago when hoard coins were...
I second the recommendation of chrsmat71 of John Anthony's "Collecting Greek Coins" book, even if you intend to collect Roman coins. Sayles volume...
In case you were wondering, the illustrated example 184/1a in Crawford is quite clear that it really is a butterfly.
The quiz has an error, at least in my Chrome browser. One had only three answers show up. The one about 375 that did not have the correct answer...
VK, that is a nice coin made even better by the excellent writeup. Thanks!
One time I visited a collector who got trays from England and had a case built for the trays. It was interesting enough that I took this photo:...
I have numerous important and interesting ancient-coin references for sale. All were previously priced better than anywhere else and today I...
How wide is the magnifying window? How tall is it overall? The image scale is unclear.
Doug is right that if a diobol is about 1 gram, my Teos coin (above), at 0.33 grams, could not be a tetartemorion (1/4 obol). DeCallatay (citing...
The book on these is by Michel and Karen Prier, "The Syro-Phoenician Tetradrachms and their Fractions". They are French, but the book is in...
Here is a candidate for the smallest griffin: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Ionia, Teos, c. 478-449 BC. 7 mm. 0.33 grams. Sear Greek -- (as 3512, but much...
The images should be as large as will fit. Coins are just too small for people to really see in a public setting. People will see the image first,...
I like ancient imitations. I just got this imitation tetradrachm of Athens [ATTACH] 24-23 mm. 11:00 die axis. 18.78 grams. Cast. The photo does...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] RO-MA Commemorative struck 330 AD at Constantinople. Extremely rare, RIC VIII Constantinople 104 "R4" (2-3 known to RIC). 15...
I, too, am a big fan of ancient-coin books. We collect coins to have them and enjoy them because of what we know about them. As bits of metal they...
Those who commented seem to think the OP Lucilla is genuine. Look at the obverse rim from 5:00 to 9:00. Look at the reverse rim from 4:00 to 9:00....
We owe a debt of thanks for all Doug does to make this forum great. Thanks, Doug!
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