Here's my latest photo effort Byzantine-wise. This is a very crude follis of what I think is of Heraclius. The year appears to be year 8....
Thanks. I'm having problems matching the obverse portrait with any of the Ptolemies, but the legend on the reverse seems to include "Ptolemy".
I find the auction results at Roma quite similar to other establishments, such as CNG. Some coins are "hot" and many are not, with the majority...
This is a head scratcher, at least for me. The reverse legend indicates clearly that the coin is one of the Ptolemaic kings, but I cannot place...
There seems to be an animal, possibly a tiger or lion on the scepter held by Zeus, on the reverse. [ATTACH]
Thank you for the additional information. It looks like I'll be creating more than one label for this coin.
Whoever designed the reverse had a splendid imagination, combining a Greek god and an eastern king. The consensus, it appears, is that the image...
I don't know if my bidding strategy this year differs from previous years. Basically, if I find a coin that I like I, and it enhances the...
I guess bidding in their auction puts butterflies in one's stomach....
Yes! A definite air of the oriental potentate, with his jeweled turban.
Here's an interesting coin that arrived through the mail slot today. It is a tridarchm of Trajan, Cappadocia-Caesarea, with Zeus on the reverse....
Try to keep expectations at a reasonable level, and if there are any issues that make you really unhappy with the coin return it. I try to take a...
They're both very nice coins.
I'd leave it alone at this point and let the coin re-tone. You've done a nice job restoring some of the coin's detail.
Nice coin!
The hammer struck coins produced by the Spanish mints were essentially silver ingot, in a manner of speaking, with the Spanish arms and other...
That's a nice Potosi cob. I'd say that it is above average in condition for this wreck.
Yes, that is very true, especially with the hammered coinage.
For that past two or so years Spanish colonial coins, primarily from the reign of Charles II of Spain and a few early coins of Philip V, but also...
That's a good question. I would assume that the purity level would comply with the Spanish standard used in Spain and her colonial mints: 93.1%...
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