Congratulations on the late arrival of your Nero! I've had a few long waits like that from both Spain and Germany in the past year or two. (One...
Regarding the provenance to Holm et al., this is indeed a Danish provenance... I've cut-and-pasted my provenance file notes about Holm below. He...
Great Judaea Capta Sestertius! I recently posted this one (AE As), sort of the reverse situation. CNG had it attributed as the Lyon mint, 79 CE...
The big problem with sellers like this isn't the fakes you recognize, but the fakes you don't know you have. Most large serious collections...
By now I recognize that Byzantine follis immediately, even with the fake weathering and not seeing the reverse:...
I believe I have only one Provincial coin of Corinth, a Marcus Aurelius (BCD Corinth 721). Not my prettiest coin, but it holds a fair amount of...
I wanted the halved AR Shekel below not only because I love the type (and the controversies over its interpretation) and knew I'd never get a full...
Did anyone notice the most impressive thing about the auction? That bid-caller was effortlessly switching between (at least) four languages, and...
@Marsyas Mike and @dougsmit -- Thanks for the comments: This conversation has (to my enjoyment) gotten a bit technical and moved away from the...
This comment continues the conversation started among @dougsmit (see CT Post 8289212), @Marsyas Mike (see CT Post 8289019), myself (@Curtis , see...
Interesting thread! Helmets in their varieties do a appear on a LOT of ancient coins. I'd forgotten some of my own (like the big facing...
Here's a Provincial Claudius (though I see it sometimes listed as Imperial) that I'm very fond of. I posted it recently on the "Follow the Game"...
I have had similar things happen on occasion! This reminds me of Michael Shutterly's Coinweek article last year (14 April 2021), “The One That Got...
Great countermark, hadn't seen that before! Looks like Howgego 369 is RPC Countermark 489, with a few more examples here:...
Very helpful, thanks for the updates! I'll be adding much of the material you linked to my personal biblio / links / research/ notes file. As I...
Mount Argaeus as a countermark! Britannicus AE of Cappadocia, Caesaraea-Eusebia. Octavia and Antonia on reverse. 20mm, 5.87g. (Coin-in-hand video...
Yup, that's the one! That and -- very confusingly -- Monogram 1045 (both are slightly wrong, but I believe both mistakenly cataloged the same...
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