If it's your intention to use the opinions of the collectors on CoinTalk, based only on viewing your pictures, as some sort of assurance or proof...
Certainly my observation was focused on high-end collectibles, not just coins, and I noted only the correlation. Proving causality would require...
While I doubt this is the proper forum to debate macroeconomic cause-and-effect relationships, I would point out that it's much more likely that...
Let me preface my post by noting that this thread is close to four years old and, inasmuch as I'm not an attorney with expertise in import/export...
Interestingly, seeing the four emperors together as one set makes the history a bit more tangible, from a time of unrest and disruption to a...
Agreed. The Flavians in particular are tooled to the point of looking cartoonish. The fact that Ibercoin describes this as tooling as...
You didn't mention the price range of the coin in which you're interested. If it's under $100, you're probably not going to get much...
I find myself in almost complete agreement with this observation about Roman coins. I appreciate the artistry of many of the portraits, as well...
This is such a strikingly artistic and beautiful coin that when I first saw it in the Triton auction I considered bidding on it, despite the fact...
Probably many collectors here are registered with CNG and regularly get CNG's emails, as I do. Just now I received Mike Gasvoda's (CNG's CEO)...
RIC 2972 is the only entry I can find in my book that has IMP CAESAR TRAIAN HADRIANVS AVG on the obverse and also has "P M TR POTES III COS III,...
According to my copy of RIC Volume II, Part III published in 2019 by Spink, and assuming your reading of the obverse legend is accurate, you have...
Thanks for pointing this out -- it further verifies that these coins aren't my area of expertise!
I absolutely agree with that observation. So, as a point of clarification, my purpose was to present some facts about this and similar coins,...
Let me try to do a little of the math in the transaction to which you refer. I assume that the coin you're referring to is the Dionysos...
If the obverse is COS III with no globe at the base of the bust, then it's very likely to be RIC II.2 322 corresponding to RIC II.1 497, Rome...
I'm having a little difficulty finding the COS IIII on the obverse. It looks more like COS II, for which I can't find a corresponding Vespasian...
If authenticity is important to you, purchase your coins from dealers or auctioneers who guarantee their authenticity. NGC doesn't guarantee...
Therein lies the rub. If you decide to approach ancient coins primarily as an investor rather than a collector, you're in a speculative area...
Yes, in the coin collage, all my coins are shown in exact proportional size.
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