Not sure what was done to it, but while looking at pictures, I found this Severus that has a very similar reverse. My eye is inexperienced, but...
Yup, although my coin has two big chips, I actually liked it better than the other examples up for sale because I thought the portrait was nicer...
Yeah, it could just be the angle and lighting were perfect to make the crack hard to see in their picture, or the crack maybe got a little worse....
CNG shipped mine in a box, as did Roma. Live and learn, I have to start checking with sellers and not take it for granted that all will provide a...
Thanks all, really appreciate your observations and graphics. It actually is much better to me for the crack to have already existed and I just...
I received some scyphate Byzantine coins in the mail and was quite surprised that they simply came in an envelope and one of those flat, sticky...
We weren't the first to own our coins and we won't be the last. There will come a day for us all where we send our coins back out into the wild...
3 months? :clown: Anyone know how long it took to post from one side of the Empire to the other back in the day?
The reaction I get is not usually believing they are fake but rather amazement that I have such coins. Here's some texts after I sent someone a...
How pure is Celtic gold? Looks very coppery in the pics or is that just dirt that'll wash off pretty easily?
Thanks for posting. Granted, they ended up pulling it, but kind of disturbing they didn't verify provenance before posting. It would have been...
Yeah, I couldn't tell if that was gunk on the surface of the coin or the inside of the coin. The weight if definitely off if that isn't a typo....
Although I have not reached the point where I am identifying unknown coins, I agree that the Catalogue of the Late Byzantine Coins, Volume I is...
:D Sounds like I got lucky. Hopefully I won't have to repeat the process again. Sounds like them wasting resources and taking packages on...
I got some stuff from Roma in London, but it didn't ship DHL, fortunately. Numismatik Naumann in Austria uses DHL and I am not too impressed....
Pampillon had a beat to hell Mezezius up last month for 8,000 EUR opening bid, but it got no bid (or maybe it was fake?) and was withdrawn...
I know absolutely nothing about these coins and the different types and rarities, but apparently it sold for $10,350 in 2010 so maybe the price...
My opinion as a newer collector and as a collector that mostly buys coins already attributed is that I really dislike books with plates. I...
Besides the brow which you noted, the left side of face looks different to me as well [ATTACH]
I am a newbie collector this year. The pandemic was a factor since it's related to gold prices, but it is indeed gold rising that was a big push...
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