I hope the OP will not mind my question but his coin prompted a question about these Ptolemaic tetradrachmas. How in heavens name can one...
Possibly a barbarous imitation.
Is it safe (for the phone) to carry these things if they are close to your smart phone?
Even if it is silver, it will be damaged by salt water pretty quickly and remember that by the middle of the Second Century any Roman denarius...
This coin appears to be of brass. The denarius was a silver coin. Depending on its size it could be a Sestertius (silver dollar size) a Dupondius...
Now, if you had one for the coronation of George III circa 1760, that would be of considerable interest of an American collector.
I started collecting coins and stamps in the 1950's when I was still in my young teens. It seemed every other kid collected one or the other. When...
That reminds me of being on a tour of a Civil War battlefield site. When the park ranger finished he asked if anybody in the group had any...
Look at the pillars on the reverse. One should be able to read the inscription PLVS ULTRA (more beyond). With the PLVS heavily worn off the left...
Before I would condemn them as phony I would do a weight test. I cannot tell the size from the pix but if you research the weights of the various...
I would not have thought that a coin of Nero. Like Rorschach images admitting to one of several interpretations,what I see is a Hadrian image.
I think that, among the many factors leading to the collapse of the Western Empire, that one may be found in examining environmental changes that...
How sad to behold a coin that looks like something a grammar school dropout from Barbaria engraved. Compare it to a solidus of Zeno or Justinian....
That mark on his jawbone. Does that indicate it is a fouree?
Perhaps another way of calculating the worth of a drachma in Fifth century Athens is that a Greek mercenary soldier received a drachma a day as...
I purchased what appears to be a typical Byzantine solidus of Justinian I. Nothing unusual about its image, inscriptions or its appearance except...
My father used to tell me that he would go with his father who worked at a steel mill during WW I (Midvale in Philly) every Friday after work to...
The ancient I most admire was not a political leader and thus never made it onto a coin, as far as I know. That would be the physician,...
There's a close connection to US History here. Stephen Austin was in the process of bringing American settlers into Spanish Mexico when that coin...
if one collects coins to make money, news like this is distressing, but if one collects coins as a hobby this is good news, indeed. I invest in...
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