good riddance to him. he slabbed coins in his basement under the name National Numismatic Certification...trying to con people into believing that...
a couple of questions raised here (which was first Imperial or provincial and camel humps) are talked about in Numismatic Chronicle 2015 The...
here's your first coin with a CNG description [ATTACH] SYRIA, Coele-Syria. Damascus. Philip II. As Caesar, AD 244-247. Æ (26mm, 11.43 g, 12h)....
here are some more examples and the prices they sold for. $35.00 [ATTACH] $75.00 [ATTACH] $85.00 [ATTACH] $86.00 [ATTACH] $110.00...
here's a similar example from a different year (unless yours is also LE...hard to tell from the picture) that sold for $62 Antoninus Pius BI...
I've got a few nicer ones [ATTACH] Gallienus A.D. 259- 260 AR Antoninianus 20x21mm 3.7gm IMP GALLIENVS P AVG; radiate and cuirassed bust...
I sold this nice example to an expat in Saudi Arabia [ATTACH] Trajan A.D. 103-111 Æ As 25x26mm 9.3gm IMP CAES NERVAE TRAIANO AVG GER DAC...
from an older post -- The GENIO type is a common reverse and was issued by the Tetrarchic emperors for over a decade, but the seemingly peaceful...
Carausius was appointed commander of a fleet in the English Channel to defeat the Frank and Saxon pirates; which he did. However, he apparently...
I quickly looked in Barnes Constantine : Dynasty, Religion and Power in the Later Roman Empire and found several references. "The building and...
Acetone doesn't hurt the coin or surfaces. People used to lacquer coins and I have used acetone often to remove it.
I remember reading in at least one book about Constantine stripping pagan temples of their wealth...maybe Timothy Barnes.
it's R-F across the fields, from Rome. The mintmark is R star ?, with ? being a possibility of either P,S, T, or Q workshops.
this might be a case of the engraver forgetting to reverse Pax, though the legend was done properly. [ATTACH]
NCGS is/was a scammer slabbing out of his basement/ garage. I don't know if he is still active.
Yes, indeed. I believe the same way...it's a betrayal.
have you seen this yet? Alföldi, Andreas. "A Festival of Isis in Rome under the Christian Emperors of the IVth Century"
I am wondering how many others at ANS think like the old executive director though. Dr. Ute Wartenberg has recently stepped down as the executive...
here's a Festival of Isis issue from Jovian [ATTACH] Jovian A.D. 363- 364 14x15mm 1.4g D N IOVIANVS P F AVG; Pearl-diademed, draped and...
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