Very cool & done real well.
I remember visiting this site and reading it for a long time a few months after I started getting into ancients. Just going through it again I see...
I have the same type in better shape. I asked on the PCGS boards many months ago and a specialist on 20c pieces said its a fairly common "error"...
I saw that circulating on facebook among fellow collectors, it was humorous.
I bet, mines about a F15/VF20, its OK but raw. I want a EF+ version.
Nice, a type I need to upgrade later down the line in my collection.
Nice additions Bill!
Nice coin, interesting obverse look. He wouldnt last 5 minutes in my old high school.
Not big on Byzantine but if it was cheap enough I would pick it up too. Great details and patina.
Well I try to give my mom a very brief history of the emperor/empress on the coin. Obviously she finds characters like commodus, Nero & elagabalus...
My step-grandfather got me into coins in 1985. On my grandmothers side her grandfather or uncle collected cause I ended up with bags of world...
Rev: EYCE - BEIA Pietas, not veiled, standing l., raising r. hand over lighted altar and holding open box in l. hand
http://forumancientcoins.com/ http://bargainbinancients.com/zen/index.php If you have fairly deep pockets: http://cngcoins.com/...
I would say the middle one is fake. I am indifferent with the top one. The bottom I feel is real cause it has a countermark. I rarely see fakers...
It can be any number of reasons. It could be a big variety of coins within the collection, it could be something that consisted of a specialty of...
For silver I use Lemon Juice, has worked good on deposits on some coins I have gotten lately.
Agreed, when I do much modern coins I try and get NGC graded ones. I of course go for the coin in the holder & not the holderitself but if its a...
Its one of the more common ways to collect romans yes, but its also VERY expensive. Campgates are another beast also.
The cutoff area for Ancients tends to vary, for me its usually after 1000 A.D. or so. Most common? For sure LRBs, which stands for Late Roman...
Or you can go for ones Randy And DougS like, Fallen Horseman, which is a action scene on the reverse of a guy spearing a enemy....
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