PayPal charges a much higher fee than they claim for international sales by sneakily using a poor exchange rate. The seller gets about 4% less...
@AdamB , I'm sorry, but I think it is a modern fake. A big "hoard" of these appeared at the 1999 New York International. After many were sold the...
Earlier in this thread I showed my Maximinus II HERCVLI VICTORI with weary Hercules. Since then I visited Rome and Naples: [ATTACH] EDIT: This...
The whole group is desirable, but this would be my #1.
I wrote, "It has the same reverse legend and type." To me, the word "type" refers to the main elements of the device and does not refer to...
A very nice group! My #1 is the Eugenius siliqua and then the Galba sestertius.
Here is a Philip I, 244-249, (Marcus Julius Phillipus) of Nisibis: [ATTACH] 26 mm. 9.98 grams. It has the same reverse legend and type as the OP...
Thank you, @Roman Collector, for the link https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-roman-provincial-from-nisibis-in-mesopotamia.344276/ to your writeup...
What is its diameter?
Nisibis was a city in Roman Mesopotamia, now named Nusaybin in Turkey, on its border with Syria. Map from https://i.imgur.com/lHoCQtt.jpg and...
The coins are wonderful. Just like everyone else, I think the Eumenes is splendid. I appreciate your regular contributions to CT. I hope the...
According to Melville Jones (Dictionary of Ancient Roman Coins), in the early empire the word "moneta" means "mint", not "coin". At first "Moneta"...
The OP SARMATIA DEVICTA type of Constantine is one of the last specific-victory references on Roman coins. At the same time Crispus had this...
Hey TIF, How sure are we that the chemicals in the sticky part of the sticky paper will not tarnish silver? I have had some silver coins turn...
Agreed. The idea makes a good collecting theme, but it should be called what it is--a denomination set. "Types" are something else.
I don't, but I can appreciate that you have assembled a wonderful group. An OFFA portrait piece! Numerous other rarities in excellent condition!...
Very nice! I'd rank them in just about the same order, except I'd switch the Geta and Trajan. About the Republican piece: I see almost no wear....
I like like #8 for being different and #5 and #4 for good portraits and overall eye appeal, although others are really nice, too.
Beautiful and interesting coins! The Kyme and Magnesia are big and gorgeous. You get to add one more. The four autonomous civic tetradrachms...
In the 1970's and 1980's and early 1990's Alex Malloy (who wrote Coins of the Crusader States) was the main dealer in the US for medieval coins....
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