I'm confused about this. On this lot, if the "...bid [was] 24x minimum..." then clearly the lot sold for "...over ten times minimum..." since it...
I would reiterate this point. Buy from reliable dealers and you won't need NGC certification. Don't use slabs -- you want to be able to remove...
While this document is long, it's well worth downloading and reading in its entirety, even (especially) for those of us who never intend to clean...
So, after 50 years of marriage, has your wife stopped introducing you as "my first husband?" ;-)
I suppose this depends on whether you believe an expert's opinion is also a defacto guarantee. Legally, they're certainly not the same;...
What's the discrepancy between your post and Barry Murphy's immediately preceding post? I don't see any at all. In a past thread, I've laid out...
After my wife and I, with another couple, visited Italy in late 2016, I wrote a series of "trip reports" for my friends and siblings. We had...
There are at least two other viable options: (1) as Panzerman and others suggest, buy from known dealers who guarantee their coins' authenticity;...
I'm assuming that you paid the original 9 Euros shipping (to you) when you bought the coin, and the 11.34 Euros shipping back to the dealer:...
Wow. Cool resource. Never used this before. I concur with TIF. The OP coin legend is very likely IMP CAE and thus isn't Galba. The portrait...
You raise an interesting issue. In my copy of RIC, I was unable to find any Galba denarius with obverse legend that starts IMP CAES -- they all...
Some thoughts about this coin: 1. It's unlikely to be a forgery in this condition. 2. Obverse centering is good, and the portrait seems about...
I suppose it boils down to a gullibility vs. greediness statistic: are more people greedy than gullible, or vice versa? Or possibly are these two...
I wouldn't be so quick to characterize the person who is conned as being greedy. If you're a newcomer to ancient coins, you typically have no...
There is no conflict between using the services of an ancient coin dealer and pursuing the coins you want. The dealer's role is to provide...
This is a repost of some of the material that I posted about Julius Caesar last year, but especially for those collectors new to this site, I...
This coin is much, much better than any of this type that I've been able to find on ACSEARCH. The smoothing in the obverse and reverse fields is...
My MacBook Pro has a pixel resolution of 2560 x 1600, but the actual displayed screen/picture size is half of this (1280 x 800) since the display...
Not sure I understand your question. It's not real because it's a reproduction. There are dozens of other factors that indicate this is a...
This is a reproduction that's not meant to fool anyone. The giveaway is the letter "R" under the cap in your first picture, which likely stands...
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