Please forgive the poor quality scans. A friend sent them to me with some questions that I am unable to answer, so I'm posing them here in the...
Please forgive the poor quality scans. A friend sent them to me with some questions that I am unable to answer, so I'm posting them here in the...
I just had a package of 4 coins, worth around $130, go missing. It was paid for via PayPal, and I used eBay's domestic shipping service to print...
I just received this coin a few days ago. It's in rough shape, but I really like how the temple is shown in perspective. [ATTACH] Trajan, A.D....
I just got this denarius in, so I haven't made an official attribution or even have the size or weight measurements yet, but I'd like to get some...
I received this coin in a small lot. The tab that came with it says: Trajan, AE Hemi Drachm Alexandria Rev: Zeus standing in distyle temple facing...
In discussion of fakes, I often hear about 19th-century museum electrotypes. But I don't know much of anything about them. Is there somewhere I...
Okay. This one has me totally flummoxed. The coin is about 15 mm and weighs 1.9g. I don't even know which side to call the obverse. I'll start...
In A.D. 350, Constans was murdered by troops loyal to Magnentius, who was promptly proclaimed Emperor. Magnentius then had his brother, Decentius,...
Combing through a new lot of ancient coins, I came across this interesting FH: [ATTACH] AE2 of Constantius II, A.D. 337-361 Thessalonica mint,...
I was going through a lot of coins that I'd recently won in a CNG auction, and I came across this Diocletian antoninianus: [ATTACH] AE...
I was going through a small lot of coins that I'd recently won in an auction and discovered something neat - a pair of father/son coins. Both...
I recently received this Vespasian denarius in a small group lot. A have a question about the reverse, which shows Pax seated holding an olive...
My guess is that this one will be easier than the Bactrian/Khushan bronze that I posted a couple of days ago. Very little of the obverse...
I've finally gotten around to photographing some up the stumpers in my to-be-identified dish. Some of these coins have been sitting there for over...
I wrote a couple of months ago that I'd just gotten my first Pupienus. (I wish I was mature enough to write that without smirking.) I've been...
The lettering on the reverse of this tiny bronze (15mm, 4.5g), which I admit is difficult to see in the photo, appears to read BAΣIΛE . . .on top...
I've recently acquired a small lot of Greek bronzes that I'm working my way through, trying to identify. This is a learning process for me--I've...
Never thought I would be able to own a Pupienus, but I won this coin in a recent CNG auction. It came in a lot of 13 silver denarii and...
I have an antoninianus of Gordian III with an obverse legend that should probably read IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG but actually reads FHL rather...
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