On this site, there are so many threads dealing with getting started in ancients that you could easily spend 3 - 5 days reading them all. Here's...
In 2009, NAC sold a non-tooled Claudius SPES sestertius of this quality for $22K not including buyer's premium. If the Bertolami example were...
I asked my dealer about this one (since I have the same type shown in my Claudius thread) and it is 100% tooled.
Makes sense. I don't know Laughton's voice very well, and the recording lacked the high-frequency harmonics that distinguish the timbre of Hurt's...
It's hard to tell, based on the fidelity of the recording and my speakers, but it sounds like actor John Hurt, who played Caligula in I, Claudius.
This is a pretty accurate observation about Roman bronzes, but there is a qualitative difference between smoothing and tooling. Smoothing (in...
Thanks for all the kind compliments. I love seeing everyone's Claudiuses -- his was one of the most interesting reigns and each coin evokes a...
I recently asked my dealer about a Hadrian sestertius in this auction and he said it had been egregiously and extensively tooled. It appears...
Claudius Tiberius Claudius Drusus, better known as Claudius, was born in Lugdunum (in Gaul) in 10 BC. He was the granson of Livia, Marcus...
This mirrors my opinion as well. If the uncleaned coin had simply a silver tarnish (AgS), then I would understand how some collectors would...
Caligula [ATTACH] [ATTACH] (Note that the bust on the right, above, was restored to its original colors by indentifying particles trapped...
Tiberius [ATTACH] Tiberius Claudius Nero was Livia’s son and Augustus’ stepson. There is little recorded of Tiberius early life, although it’s...
Augustus Caesar (Octavian) [ATTACH] Augustus Caesar’s reign began an era of (relative) peace that has become known as Pax Romana (The Roman...
While I don't have a picture of my coins in their QuickSlabs, here are the obverse and reverse labels that I use: [ATTACH] For coins where the...
Following Julius Caesar’s assassination, Octavian (later to become better known as Augustus Caesar) left his military training in Apollonia,...
Absolutely! An amazing coin for that price. I suspect Berk's number is too low. Just on ACSEARCH I could find 30 different examples, which...
This is my 1,000th post on this site, and I thought I’d mark the occasion by kicking off a presentation of (most of) my small collection. Having...
Most likely, it's not really the width of the images but the size in MBytes that slows down the process. You can probably achieve a sufficient...
Directly from Bertolami Fine Arts: [ATTACH] Tooling and smoothing? About EF? Why not just tool it until it's FDC? Maybe they should change...
NEPTUNE: (Couldn't resist showing my all-too-frequently displayed, overexposed ;-) Neptune) [ATTACH] VESPASIAN 69 - 71 A.D. AV Aureus (7.35...
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