No. A real problem is that severe, abusive cleaning reduces the value of a genuine coin so much that the question as to whether it is real or not...
Usually coins struck from fake dies will vary in centering while casts tend to show consistent centering unless they are trimmed or tooled to make...
The SA makes Salus pretty certain but that great snake nosing the patera from his flaming altar makes that a coin I would love to have. Not much...
That's pretty rough just because the coins are 99.9% cheap and unpopular with investors. Are there any investment grade Claudius ants? There...
That is a great coin. I believe it is from the first reign LD mint before they started putting year dates on them. Both of mine are second reign...
Reminds me of my other Pax. [ATTACH]
How do you separate a coin under Severus Alexander from one under Elagabalus?
We had a good showing of Postumus coins. Who want to play Carausius? My new one is pretty typical in some ways and better in others. Many/most...
I like your Salus. I have has mine a long time. [ATTACH]
The double sestertii shown are nice but, more, typical in that nice coins are not always all that great on both sides. Finding coins that do not...
This is a great example of a Postumus type that usually comes in poor shape. Just try to find one as nice as Zumbly's Saeculi Felicitas. Part of...
Pish's advice is sound but I'll add one more. There are as many ways to collect as there are collectors. Don't feel like you 'should' buy a...
Most of us prefer nicer coins to less nice coins. The question is how much more does each bit nicer add to the cash value. To me, better coins...
Mine is weak and shows the poor billon in use when the late Mrs. Valerian was being honored. I have not seen her coins in metal as good as used at...
While I always wanted an Aes Grave liberal as, I have so far settled for a 40.0g sextantal with nice faces and not much reverse [ATTACH] and the...
I keep telling myself that I am not collecting Postumus but I keep buying ones I did not have. The one that arrived today is SAECVLI FELICITAS...
Has there been die study confirming that the stippled look on the fields of these was in fact a feature of the dies? Many coins show it. I'm...
I bought this one because of you people. I mean I have been wanting a coin of this type for my Alexandrian group but this one appealed despite...
Numbers like 3-24 and words like 'exactly' are contradictory. No one knows exactly how many of something exist. A guy with a shovel or a recluse...
As mentioned in another thread: Big Dogs play rough. Rule two is there is always a Bigger Dog. Doubt that? "has died aged 48"
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