It took me less than 60 seconds to research and find the 2016 auction sale of the Caligula sestertius listed by the EBay seller, including its...
This Caligula was sold in 2016 at The New York Auction for $2500 + buyer's fee -- about $3,000: [ATTACH] This is a very desirable sestertius of...
For ancient coin collectors, this is, and should be, the final arbiter in your evaluation of a coin. Third party grades are nothing more than a...
One of my favorite coins, this reverse has each of Caligula's sisters holding a cornucopia, in poses that remind me of Three Graces sculptures:...
My personal observations about this coin: 1. At 2.8 g. it is 7% - 8% underweight compared to the lowest weight of similar coins that I find on...
Pure, untarnished silver is bright and shiny. A silvered item -- coin, jewelry -- would initially exhibit a smooth, bright, evenly shiny surface....
It's not clear to me what you mean by "RD" but in the context of other responses in this thread, it seems that you mean something like the...
Even my small collection (fewer than 60 coins) includes nine coins minted in Lugdunum, and it would be excessive to post them all here, especially...
Hadrian's coins, and his travel series specifically, enticed me to branch out from my 12 Caesars collection (or are they a "side collection" as...
In my entire life of playing golf, I'll admit that I've never met anyone, golfer or non-golfer, who considered golf an investment. I certainly...
Apparently a necklace owned by Pauline Bonaparte, Napoleon's sister. [ATTACH]
This is a particularly nice example of this sestertius. Congratulations! I've always thought that Caligula's portraits on his denarii and aurei...
Know what, exactly? Factually supported data and analysis of a coin, or your opinion of a coin? Everyone on this site needs to think about...
Aren't we sort of missing the obvious, here? ACSEARCH does not hold the copyrights to the pictures that they use on their own site, yet they use...
You beat me to this! I was going to post the exact same passage from the copyright law/fair use. Thanks for saving me the work! I agree with...
Uh, yeh... I plead jet lag...
Thanks. I think you mean the Domitian denarius with the elephant reverse -- celebrating the opening of the Colosseum.
Inasmuch as my first area of collecting ancient coins was the 12 Caesars, I thought I'd share some of my thoughts and experiences. I decided to...
Completely irrelevant to the subject of coins, but relevant to vanity license plates, I have to relate the story of the best vanity license plate...
This is an interesting thesis on which to start a thread, but I'm wondering if you have conducted sufficient research or have sufficient empirical...
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