Some of them do quite clearly have iconography (there are variants with a king's head, flowers, animals, etc.) and deliberately contoured ones...
Ah, thank you very much! That helps me quite a bit.
Now THAT one I do recognize from searching auction results, etc. Very nice, stevex6! (Wanna trade, lol!?) I suspect mine may just be D-shaped...
Lol, crazy, but not completely crazy !!
Well, it helps to know I'm not completely crazy! :)
I picked this Persian AR Siglos up a couple of weeks ago, and have been trying to decide what to make of the reverse (that's why I bought it). I...
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Bummer! I was hoping you'd get a verdict one way or the other, but was pulling for evidence of Trier mint. Maybe there are others not yet listed...
It's just like I say about fist fights, "If you always win, you must be avoiding anyone who might be able to give you a real challenge." With...
Not sure i agree completely, but HA brings up an interesting issue. When it comes to tooling, it's easy to recognize wholesale sculpting of...
Sorry to hear it spock For me, it'll be my first cicf. I'm excited, feel like a kid again going to my first show! In fact, it is my first real...
Good comments by Doug. Lanz is interesting; they sell tooled coins, but sometimes they will say out right they're tooled! (Pressure from people...
I'm not an expert, just someone who tries to collect any Hadrians that cross my desk. I've handled a few dozen of his sestertii and to me it looks...
Ripley wins with Helena I think. (Wow, old family for that age!) Tiberius was also 77 at death, I believe. Here's him looking young on a pretty...
Pretty sophisticated fake, at least from the looks. Not common enough to be seeing die matches, and it appears there were flan variations to...
I think the images are strongly suggestive of Trier. The exergue definitely looks to begin TR, and the positioning is right for the P to be...
I can only give advice for ancient coin buyers, and that's to stick to a relatively small number of "saved sellers" who you have reason to trust....
I'm certainly attending! Looking for an official website to schedule my time there
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