Since Gavin Richardson complained that 4 would have been better, I thought I would oblige. Don’t like to disappoint anyone. [ATTACH]
that was Ilya Zlobin and it was a Julius Caesar denarius, not an aureus. Barry Murphy
I'm not sure what "overpaying" really means. It's really just relative to time and place. In 2003, in a room with every major dealer in the world,...
3 Julius Caesar aurei. [ATTACH] Barry Murphy
Th Hadrian from Bithynia hasn't been tooled. There are some cleaning scratches and perhaps some light smoothing on the reverse in the fields. I'd...
If you are interested in Antiquarian numismatic books, this set is a must...... BIBLIOTHECA NUMMARIA II: BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 17TH CENTURY NUMISMATIC...
I wish this were a true story. The photos are from a hoard found in Somerset in 2010. The Allectus was a single find in 2019. Barry
DonnaML, Your coin and the Vinchon coin are the same coin. Vinchon was one of the last hold outs still using plaster casts for his illustrations....
The Roma coin is fine. Barry
Sort of a worthless pedigree. LOL. Barry
The first ancient coin I purchased was an M. Sergius Silus denarius. I purchased it from Tom Walker at a GNA show in Atlanta in 1983 for $45. I...
Not sure that downloaded properly. I’ll try again from a computer later this morning. barry
Donna, Your coin is fine. here is something I compiled back in 2020 on another fake Valentinian solidus group that isn’t published anywhere...
That’s NFA XXVII, not XXII. The Saturninus is fine. NFA XXII has a fake Ahenobarbus on the cover. [ATTACH]
ANACS will slab it. They don't mention problems and don't have the expertise to judge authenticity with ancients. We get a lot of ANACS and ICG...
What does Lucernae disagree with? They think the edge is original? Barry.
It wasn't an electrotype. Barry
1 - I don't recall. SG is sort of a last resort test. XRF tests can actually go deep enough to pick up the base metal core, unless the silver...
The obverse a reverse of this coin looked OK for the most part. Crawford 469/1 always looks different than other denarii of the period, such that...
The coin should be 2000 years old. Anything in the last 500 years is modern as far as ancients are concerned.
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