I got an ugly one similar to the OP - Jupiter on the reverse. It has been stripped of its patina (I assume). If my attribution is correct, it...
Great post - I really like ordinary stuff. I've been accumulating low grade sestertii lately - here are a few of the $20ish finds. All three...
Nice overstrike. I really like collecting these - they can be had fairly inexpensively, and sometimes with a little work, you can figure out the...
Nice coins - such a bewildering (but interesting to collect) array of varieties. I only have a couple, this is the best of the small lot:...
I really like this countermark - it is attractive and unusual. I have just been getting into ancient countermarks the past year or and a lot of...
I'd like to see other opinions on this, RC. I've seen some denarii with that same look, but I wonder if it is just planchet laminations on a...
Interesting post. I too wonder about fourrées - it sure looks like some of them passed for a while. What also baffles me is how accurate they...
Interesting variety - I am not really able to offer much by way of information, but I just so happened to get a Faustina II that I had "variation"...
Nice examples. Trajan AE's are well-made - artistically fine, nice preparation of dies and planchets, and perhaps the best lettering in all of...
Nice batch of ancients.
Strangely enough, prop money is becoming a counterfeit problem, according to a recent article in The Atlantic: Movie-Prop Cash Is Fooling...
Okay, at the risk of messing up the thread, the coolest "coin bowl" I have is this Scottish "Quaich" - a vessel for drinking whiskey out of. They...
Wow! That is fancy. I am sort of a screw-top wine drinker - I think a sommelier would find me contemptible!
Thank you for expanding on this, Justin. I thought those "portrait" types were Imperial Ases (Asses?) or, more likely, Balkan imitations. I don't...
Tastevin! I was pretty sure there was a name for the "wine-tasting thing" but I was too lazy to look it up. Thank you, lordmarcovan!
Nice coin - these roubles are pretty common, but they have really appreciated in value over the years - when I was first collecting 30 years ago,...
I'd keep it. I carry around coins like this in my pocket (one at a time, so they don't bang together). My guess is silver will go up and when it...
Interesting - I have seen several presentation cases for these, but I don't recall one quite like this.
These are hard to find in nice condition. I have a couple, but my nicest one was incorporated into a wine-tasting thing - it might have rim...
What an interesting post! I love movie coins and I was unaware of this one. As for the coin in question, here is my impression of Gregory Peck...
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