Here are several coins from an "Albert Reeves Collection" that seem very likely to be the same collection (hefty Greek & RPC bronzes), and the...
Okay, update on the collector. Some of the original Elder sale catalogs from the 1930s can be found Archive, and I've seen coins for sale before...
I'm at work for an hour but I'll send you my Charles McReeve (?) notes when I get back and see if I can spot anything further about this one......
Even more the first time they sold it! EUR 3,250 at Auction 72, No. 741 [ACSearch]. (Do I have that right?! I'm going by their printed PRL, since...
Just some Greek ones here: I think about the Greek representations of helmets as existing along a continuum with two poles, either of which can be...
Thanks for sharing that, I'm sorry to hear. I wish I'd communicated with him more often, but enjoyed those times I did and appreciated his posts...
That just registered! I've been at it approximately half that long (always ancients, with a break or two in the middle) and sometimes forget there...
I definitely do NOT recommend doing it like me. (Well, I recommend the way I do it in the very bottom video clip.) But for anything that doesn't...
There are features that tend to be found on posthumous or lifetime issues, some more reliable than others, but to be sure you need to identify...
It can't be Serdica or Ostia (those mints were not active at all under Constantius II, as far as I know, and definitely not for this type of...
I don't think the dot has anything to do with the mint. On these it might be a centering dot which can appear anywhere. If you look at the...
For those kind of coins, among USA auctioneers, I might also consider Stephen Album (all kinds, but they specialize in Central Asian coins,...
Ah, yes, the RIC 337, I believe. Here's my example, which I must've picked up about 15 years ago, but didn't record where. (Consigned it once but...
Great result! If Woytek gave it its own type in that vol. he probably will in RIC II.2 as well. Until then still not in RIC!
In general that works well if you just want to know a catalog number and the coin type is well known. But when the answer is less obvious, there...
Continued... RIC II (1926 edition) is organized differently from BMCRE3, which gives a somewhat different impression. [Edited out a misreading...
Interesting coin and good catch! I think you would want to check what the print volume of RIC has to say about it, not just OCRE. There is a lot...
Look at that! I think our L.BVCA's (480/8) are from the same die pair! They are in different die-states & struck a bit too quickly w/ different...
Actually, I think it's definitely Septimius Severus from the mint at Cappadocia, Caesarea, struck in 194 CE. Reverse legend reads: MHTΡO...
It's a great coin, but that one you linked (Antoninus Pius Drachm from Egypt, Alexandria) is different in several important ways. (Impossible for...
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