No die rust, just some graffiti in the fields. Horse is completely normal. Barry
Haven’t shared any coins in awhile. This one crossed my desk today. Not every day a Labienus aureus is available to study. The sixth known. Last...
CHERD, don’t not buy a coin because you don’t like the label. You can always send it back in for a small reholder fee and get the label you...
There is no list of Categories for ancients on NGC’s website and I don’t have one that I can publish. It’s a fluid list that changes regularly as...
The holders are available for coins that otherwise couldn’t be slabbed do to fragility or size. Any coin that comfortably and safely can fit in a...
There are plenty on the market. To see some look at this more recent lots here....
It’s the same reverse die as the 1826 discussed in another discussion today. And the obverse comes from the same host with the small indent at the...
Clearly a modern forgery. It's closest to an N-9 with the point of the leaf under S2 under the right inside of the S, but the obverse is wrong and...
$20 bid increments at the 250 range is actually normal to slightly low for most live auctions. I see $25 at most auctions I attend and over the...
Philip from Antioch.
That's a horrible forgery.
I think your machine needs calibrating. I’ve xrf tested 1000’s of coins including several hundred Athenian tets and aurei. Never, and I mean never...
The term smoothing has been around as long as I remember, and I’ve been dealing in ancients for nearly 35 years. Just for fun, I searched CNA IV...
glad heritage took care of everything. If you plan on doing this in the future, don’t crack it out of the ANACS holder before you submit it to NGC...
For what it’s worth, I see a lot of fake and problem coins in ANACS holders. I am referring to ancients only, not US or world. Barry Murphy.
The original coin is either tooled or fake. I’d want to see it in hand to confirm which. Barry Murphy
The Karneios/Silphium plant didrachms were most likely out of a recent hoard of these. I had almost 500 of various varieties on my desk a few...
“However, NGC doesn’t distinguish a Trajan’s Column type from a Fortuna type despite the differences in rarity and value.” yes we do. “So NGC...
Your coin is ex Nauman 101 (April 4, 2021), lot 12 and ex Rauch 35 ( September 17, 2020), lot 21. there are about 30 examples on Coin Archives...
There might be more demand if there actually were 1 from each state making a 50 coin set. Unfortunately such a set doesn’t exist. Barry Murphy
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