Unfortunately I cannot cite the source but I recall that in the period around 100 AD, about the time of Trajan, there were still some of the...
Take your time. You don't have to weigh all of them, just 1/3 or so. Also let us see the reverse side. Some fakes are so good that many of us...
What is the weight of these coins, each one?
I guess your coin was not "scott free".
I was blessed with a Classical education whether I wanted one or not. Latin was mandatory at my high school. At the university I attended, more...
I foresee a new segment on a cable TV channel investigating who were the mysterious visitors from ancient times to have visited North America a...
That reddish encrustation reminds me of a hoard of Elymais bronzes, First Century AD, that were almost all like the coins pictured above. I asked...
Hard to tell what you have there. Ancient copy? A good number of those Ronan bronzes were copied in Britain in ancient times and while the fabric...
What is interesting is that you could have bought more, a lot more in in 1934 with these bills that you can today. In that sense, buying power,...
While there are many copies of the Spanish coins, the weights and appearance of the coins you picture lead me to think they are genuine. The...
I found the coin the author must have been referring in Sear (2002 edition Vol 2 # 3384) and also in Vagi #1335. In sear it is pictured. I guess...
I am reading a biography of the Emperor Hadrian and the author wrote something I am looking for more information on. According to this author, who...
Thanks, again. I will remember that trick.
Thanks a lot for that information. I had no idea who that tiny figure at the bottom was though I did suspect it was a posthumous issue of...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] I have a drachma (NOT a tetradrachma) of Alexander the Great. It weighs in at 4.22 grams. I know these coins were issued after...
To those living in 1,000 AD in Constantinople every day was modern times and they were all Romans (Rhomaioi). That said, for us, Byzantine coins,...
Thanks. My main concern was in dealing with a firm based in a part of the world that offers coins that may not be permissible to the recent...
Claudius, I went to the site you highlighted and the coins seem more than reasonable, quite inexpensive, actually. I assume you have experience...
No coin image here, but it is most appropriate to associate some of ancient coinage with the American revolution. Many of the founding fathers...
You know, I have wondered about that sort of thing, even into modern times. I have seen what were obviously ancient coins so worn, and worn...
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