Congrats on the Lacam pick-up. I saw this auction listing and thought "I really need to bid on that" and then of course totally forgot about it....
Sorry, was still typing my previous message when the ghost in the machine took over and posted it incomplete. Here now are the remaining 2 coins...
I've enjoyed this thread greatly; we definitely need more migration era postings here on Cointalk although I still love that older term "Dark Age"...
I was thinking really of the part-time individuals who must have existed in every Roman town that, if you needed to change denarii to aureii, knew...
Gam3rBlake, I agree that there was a middle class during the Roman Empire; perhaps not as widespread or as aggressively consuming as the middle...
I would be wary of this piece. In particular, on the reverse photo I don't like what appears to be an edge impression seen between the 6 and 8...
From the photos looks OK to me. All dealers of course can make a mistake, but the fact that it previously passed through Naville is reassuring as...
I think it's fair to say that most, if not all, of us who've been collecting for awhile have had a coin that we upgraded on by purchasing a nicer...
Obolos / Nomos is top notch in my opinion. I won on their last auction, and they invoiced within a couple days of the auction close. Their...
Thank you for posting the email as I didn't receive it directly from CNG; I think I need to update my email preferences with them. I tried to...
I bid reasonably on about a dozen Roman Imperials but came up short. The only one I bid aggressively on was the 19th century Becker version of a...
From the portrait style and COS IIII reverse I think it's actually Titus as Caesar under his father Vespasian.
I seem to remember that I needed to fax a copy of my passport to Jean Elsen when registering with them a number of years ago. Not sure if that's...
Joe, congrats on the acquisition. I'm sure I'm not the only one here who slapped their head when reading "my upgraded EID MAR".
I agree with others that these are not Spanish wreck coins and that, since the seller has still not shipped or even replied two weeks after...
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" always applies, so just for what it's worth I like your original tetradrachm better than the replacement.
The only Probus I currently have: [ATTACH] AR Antoninianus (24 mm, 3.95 grams, 7h), Serdica mint, 2nd officina Obverse: IMP C M AVR PROBVS P...
Veni, Vidi, Bibi
Reading this at the moment. [ATTACH] Published in 1997, it covers the excavations (1981 - mid 90s) at this important southern Italian site,...
I don't see what the big mystery is or that it should be cause for real concern. Men and women often like and gravitate towards different things,...
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