Magnesia ad Sipylum (in Lydia, Conventus of Smyrna) is a pretty obscure city. Domitia is a pretty rare empress. The combination makes for a pretty...
I bought this one in 1974 and have loved it since. But, it didn't cause me to buy more. I bought a few books on Celtic coins, but I didn't buy...
I like coins of Trajan (98-117), but the deciding factor when I bought this one was the green patina. [ATTACH] Trajan. Sestertius. 33 mm. SPQR...
Some common coins in high grade have fetched remarkably high prices recently. (Given prices include the buyer's fee): $456 for a common Maxentius...
Lots of new firms pop up all the time. The owners presumably think, like some posters here, it is a good (and maybe even easy) way to make money....
Buyer's fees are not the only fees. These numbers underestimate the loss upon selling. It is common to have a 15-20% seller's fee, too. Let's call...
Here is a page with several examples. http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ricix/type5i.html The coin is genuine, but it looks like it has had something...
Leo III's reign started in 717. The first emperor to put Christ on a coin was Justinian II who had two reigns, 685-695 with a gold solidus with...
Soloi [ATTACH] Stater of the city of Soloi in Cilicia. 425-400 BCE. 20-19 mm and thick. 10.84 grams. Amazon kneeling on left knee, examining...
I wonder if this should be rephrased: attempts to resell them at least 2 or 3 times the price he paid.
Yes, and I backed out. There are very many auctions that do not have such a requirement. I deal with them.
Here are images of some coins of the North Black Sea region and the Kingdom of the Bosporus. That kingdom included Crimea (formerly in Ukraine,...
My imitation is worse than your imitation: [ATTACH] Fourré Athens "new style" tetradrachm. 29-28 mm. 12:00. 14.86 grams. Head of Athena in...
For Tiberius, Lugdunum minted all the denarii. There are other mints for Augustus, especially early on, like Emerita in Lusitania, and several...
According to Sutherland, the ancient author Strabo and inscriptions attest that Lugdunum was the site of Augustus's chief mint for gold and...
Roman coins from the first century might be from Lugdunum, but they don't say so explicitly. It took scholars a lot of work to try to determine...
The ANS has serious "summer seminars" to help training the next generation of numismatists. I could not find the 2019 (or 2020) list of...
Very nice coins! Those are distinctly different in my book!
If you collect Lincoln cents no one would think a 1914-D and 1931 plain were duplicates, similar though they are. Here is an ancient-coin...
@DonnaML , that's a beautiful collection and looking at all 30 in the tray, each is interesting and worthy of its own story. You could pick any...
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