Actually selling, or just offered? We know from eBay ancient-coin offerings that there can be a whopping difference between what sellers ask and...
If you don't have money for coins, or need to save up a war chest, I suggest buying ancient-coin books. They are cheap compared to coins and you...
I love my library and have it categorized by topic. Most sale catalogs are ho-hum, but some are special because of their particular emphasis. Here...
Under the Byzantine empire the emperor Justinian (527-565) made some very large diameter copper coins, 40 mm and up in the reform of 538 and then...
In a previous thread @Mat suggested coins under $25 were "snacks". Here is a snack (shipping included) that came today: [ATTACH] 20 mm. 5.12...
A small difference to the uninitiated can make a significant difference in desirability and value. Probably the simplest key is the eye. If it is...
@Parthicus, good luck with the sale. For your sake, I hope all the coins go high (except the ones I bid on). ;)
If the timing were possible, I'd agree with @TIF. If the timing were the other way around and @ro1974 no longer had his coin, I'd say it was his...
I think that, for a crack to be that long, the coin must be fragile and have been weak from the beginning. I have a few like that and am very...
Here is a small piece, 11 mm and only 0.95 grams. [ATTACH] There is no lettering. It looks a lot like a small coin, but without lettering I...
Something is wrong here. If they are not the same coin, one or both are fakes. As @red_spork noted, the unusual centering and flan shapes are the...
Here is a Gordian III of Viminacium struck "ANIIII" = year 4 = 242/3 AD. [ATTACH] 28 mm. 21.24 grams. IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG (a Regular...
BCD used his initials (although he is well-known anyway).
Here is a drachm of Seleukos I, a successor of Alexander. At the division of Alexander's empire two years after Alexander died, in 321 he was...
Gallienus has the neat "zoo series". Here is one of the tougher ones in it: [ATTACH] SOLI CONS AVG Bull right. RIC 285. Cunetio, 1405. Ex...
Here is an uncommon Julia Domna type: [ATTACH] IVLIA AVGVSRA MATRI CASTRORVM . "mother of the camps" or "camp mistress" empress seated left...
I prefer the solution mentioned by Doug. Hypothetically, if there was a bidder at 1500, you at 2200, and a non-paying bidder at 2400, you should...
Finley's book was published in 1973 and initiated a long and contentious discussion of the ancient economy. A book with interest to numismatists...
[ATTACH] The first is a slim hardcover volume (125 pages) with stories of all the Greek kings and a portrait coin for each. 1937. Very nice...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] L. Aemilius Lepidus Paullus.AR Denarius, 62 BC. Veiled and diademed head of Concord right; PAVLLVS LEPIDVS CONCORDIA around....
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