Oh... wait a minute. I only acquired three coins in 2018, not 10. Sorry about that misleading title. My quest for Hadrian travel series coins...
When I purchased my Vespasian Judaea Capta denarius eight years ago, from a private collector through my dealer, tooling of these types was known...
A well-known and respected auction house listing. Read the bottom line. [ATTACH]
Agree 100%. I've read through this thread more than once and have no clue as to what provoked the OP's reaction. That surely makes more sense...
You might want to regard that auction result with a bit of skepticism and temperance. Consider the following coin: [ATTACH] Sold at Triton XIV...
For the two of you out there who haven't seen these, here they are for the umpteenth time: [ATTACH]
Curious that it didn't correct "grammer" to "grammar" and "useage" to "usage."
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Weight and size are within normal range for this type of coin. If you decide to bid in this EBay auction, you might want to compare prices for...
For a topic about which I had no knowledge nor prior interest, this is really well written and quite interesting as well as helping me learn...
You're not going to get a definitive answer to your question, since there are so many factors that enter into providing such advice to someone who...
Here's a similar coin that sold in an auction about a year ago for about $60 U.S., including buyer's fee: [ATTACH] It's my personal opinion that...
Some additional information about this coin that would be helpful: - weight in grams - approx. diameter - source of coin (name of dealer or party...
You can't possibly have meant to write this. Here's a table of various metals' different weight per cubic meter, all of which will sink in (and...
My personal thoughts on HJB's offer: I think it's a clever combination of marketing and service. If a collector sends in his/her own coin and...
Great idea to reference this thread! Forgot all about it myself...
I've always found the reverse on this coin to be one of the most attractive on any 12 Caesars sestertius, even more so than Nero's Temple...
While looking through online resources about Nero when I posted my 12 Caesars: Nero thread, I found this information about his coinage: The...
I might use the phrase "readily available" rather than abundant, but I think it's accurate to observe that Nero denarii in better condition are...
I would argue that benign smoothing ("...the removal of surface encrustations that were not originally part of the coin, but rather deposited on...
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