I tend to focus my learning of ancients on the empresses the most & I knew from the obverse it was domna and I have looked at all the main sources...
^Wow $240 for that? It probably could have been bought cheaper. I take it you like ancients slabbed? Funny, NGC's monthly newsletter features a...
My nerva wasnt one of my cheaper ARs but its one I am very happy with. [img]
Very cool & done real well.
I remember visiting this site and reading it for a long time a few months after I started getting into ancients. Just going through it again I see...
I have the same type in better shape. I asked on the PCGS boards many months ago and a specialist on 20c pieces said its a fairly common "error"...
I saw that circulating on facebook among fellow collectors, it was humorous.
I bet, mines about a F15/VF20, its OK but raw. I want a EF+ version.
Nice, a type I need to upgrade later down the line in my collection.
Nice additions Bill!
Nice coin, interesting obverse look. He wouldnt last 5 minutes in my old high school.
Not big on Byzantine but if it was cheap enough I would pick it up too. Great details and patina.
Well I try to give my mom a very brief history of the emperor/empress on the coin. Obviously she finds characters like commodus, Nero & elagabalus...
My step-grandfather got me into coins in 1985. On my grandmothers side her grandfather or uncle collected cause I ended up with bags of world...
Rev: EYCE - BEIA Pietas, not veiled, standing l., raising r. hand over lighted altar and holding open box in l. hand
http://forumancientcoins.com/ http://bargainbinancients.com/zen/index.php If you have fairly deep pockets: http://cngcoins.com/...
I would say the middle one is fake. I am indifferent with the top one. The bottom I feel is real cause it has a countermark. I rarely see fakers...
It can be any number of reasons. It could be a big variety of coins within the collection, it could be something that consisted of a specialty of...
For silver I use Lemon Juice, has worked good on deposits on some coins I have gotten lately.
Agreed, when I do much modern coins I try and get NGC graded ones. I of course go for the coin in the holder & not the holderitself but if its a...
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