i just looked at the prices paid for imperial coins - absurd. You can find easily better for less elsewhere
I got a few great coins on Heritage auctions a few years ago - it was a place where you could get a great deal but for last years or so the...
We need more like him today but that isn’t going to happen
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I’m a lawyer been studying, buying, selling and mostly collecting ancients for 21 years - limited to imperial bronze
Shows the complete dominance of condition over rarity - but rarity is an almost bizarre concept in ancient coins where even a collector of modest...
I have noticed how beautiful these are but never understood why prices are so low - I thought perhaps they were common
Looks ok to me despite the slightly goofy expression - why not check out acsearch and try to find out if the coin has a history? Might be tough...
On the contrary having a photograph your first coin is important to what I am trying to put together - a database of Elagabalus' rare sestertii....
A write-up worthy of a Celator front page article! Thanks!
Sorry it took a long time to respond - these are both beautiful sestertii! As to scarcity, I can put it like this - I do not think there s such a...
Typical for China - they are not ready to be members of the world economic community. But the high tech moguls have decided otherwise.
interesting that there are none dupondii for IMP X - could be a failure of any to survive, I prefer to think that the mint was focused on silver...
Impressive
Thanks I just purchased the Elagabalus Salus Antonini sestertius and Pontif Max dupondius sold by Lanz. There are only a few other example of...
Is the information recorded by Rodger Bland available on the internet? I use ACSEARCH to judge rarity (I do not have access to Banti, which also...
terrific examples!
If TE FORD was on "I Love Lucy" as Lucy's country cousin then I remember howling with laughter when he slept in the cot without opening it up - I...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Coin of the Mines Under Marcus Aurelius RIC 1255 2.50 Grams 16mm Inscribed "METAL AURELIANIS" in Wreath It appears to be human...
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