Many of you know I am retired Army. Thirty-three years active duty from 1968 to 2001. Three combat tours. Since retirement I have been a defense...
Med-man is probably correct about Ebay sellers. Perhaps we shouldn't list them unless they have a store elsewhere, i.e. DENANT.
I won't buy replicas. i WCN: http://stores.ebay.com/wcnconline?_rdc=1 Ancient Treasures: http://stores.ebay.com/ANCIENT-TREASURES?_rdc=1...
Not boring - beautiful! I have two examples, but they are so poor I won't show them here.
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It seems I have a lot of coins that ask nicely. The Valerian is the nicer, the reverse legend notwithstanding. The portrait is a nice style for...
The only coin I have from Kyme does not have a horse. Only the head of an eagle: [ATTACH] AEOLIS, KYME AR Hemiobol OBVERSE: Eagle's head...
Wow! That's a great title. I would buy the book just to see what the title meant.
"mushy"? Is that a scientific/numismatic term? :angelic:
This one looks barbarous.
It is extrordinary what detail they could fit unto such small flans. We've discussed this here before, but I still have a hard time imagining the...
If Victory was a guy it sure would look like he is relieving himself.
Both are great, but my preference would be the Kyme coin.
I'm impressed JA. For Tetricus II you did extremely well. Here is the typical flan shape of T II coins: [ATTACH] TETRICUS II Antoninianus...
BTW, this coin is not Licinius I, but rather Constantine I believe. It would help if you can post images of both sides.
It looks to me like the coin has been worn sufficiently to account for the difference in weight.
I'll be watching for ya.
Recently I was going to start a thread about how expensive Ancients seem to be, at least in the lower grades to which I gravitate. I would love...
Hard to say. Perhaps wear can be reason enough for a .5g difference. But also, the standards at the mints during the reign of Licinius I were...
Beautiful coin AJ. You just keep 'em coming, don't ya? I'm just totally jealous. [ATTACH] HADRIAN Billon Tetradrachm OBVERSE: AΥT KAI TΡAIAN...
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