I've known Frank for at least 30 years. He's a nice guy and honest dealer. But I think even Frank will admit he's a bit of a bottom feeder. Back...
It’s a modern forgery. Barry Murphy
[ATTACH] Alexander the Great eagle reverse. Barry Murphy
It's actually a common die pair for fourres. CNG 28, 241 Vico 129, 128 among others Barry
Same dies as this one from Roma XIV [ATTACH]
Ryro, You should take a wet Q-Tip to your Halikarnassos/Kindya drachm. Most of that dirt will lift right off and the coin will look nicer. You...
The original post, to which I was replying, had to do with the dating of a denarius and whether or not the reference "dated by Curtis" meant he...
The Curtis dating is from his article in the 1979 Numismatic Zeitschrift, "The Roman Coinage of Macrinus and Diadumenian ". Barry Murphy
It's about half way down page: Hidden Rare Coin Cache https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_A._Armstrong and from the attorneys...
He is the owner and the Saturninus was not part of the group sold by a thrift shop. Those coins will be in the 2021 NY international sale by...
Many people know who the buyer was. I know who the buyer was. Barry Murphy
Most likely this is the same set of PDF's that have been around since the early 2000's on ebay. They were produced by a CT member although I don't...
As I said earlier, if there was already a study done of a particular series, Richard didn't keep photos. So in many cases, issues with many...
Concerning ancients, we don’t do bronzes. We will conserve gold and occasionally silver. Barry Murphy
If I recall there were some issues he didn’t keep track of, I think because there were just too many or studies were already done. Barry
At least you can get your money back. I'm 100% certain it's not right. Barry
Mat, Unfortunately this coin is a modern forgery. There are several giveaways. 1 - the pellet on the cheek behind the eye 2 - the edge of the...
There is a lot of information in these binders, it just takes a lot of work to find it. I remember sitting in his house in 1997 looking through...
We thought it was nice style, just not quite Fine style. There's a certain artistic flair that one has to see to get the Fine Style designation....
Put a note with my name on the invoice and receiving will bring it to my attention. I don’t see invoices unless they are flagged for some reason....
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