Here is a cool provincial coin I picked up at the ANA Spring show in Orlando last week. I really liked the reverse type and the fact that Philip...
This coin of Valerian from Viminacium was being consumed by bronze disease. Every pit and depression was full of powdery green fuzz. It had a...
Forum recently listed a group of fine style hemilitrons of Syracuse. I have always liked artistic coins and coins signed by master engravers....
Here is a Roman Provincial with a galley under full sail. I love coins with ships and could easily go on a quest to get one of each type (good...
I really like the coins of Rhegion with their facing lion heads. Here is another one I found recently. This one has a very nice green patina and...
Here is an interesting Leukas Stater with Pegasos and the helmeted head of Athena. Does it look to you all like the obverse is a partial brokage?...
This coin was stolen from my US Post Office Box in a rather bizarre event that was partially my own fault. I have always been a big fan of the...
I posted this photo a while back in a thread on "your most beautiful photograph" on some such: [ATTACH] Doug pointed out that it had some...
We give the same info and advice many times each week. How about we craft a thread on some basics like avoiding fakes, good places to buy...
For those of us who did not get to go. :-(
I noticed this supremely beautiful Syracuse Dekadrachm for sale on vcoins today: [ATTACH] It is for sale here:...
Here is my first coin of 2017, an Elis Stater featuring Zeus. This was found for me through the efforts of John Anthony and the very first coin...
I am looking at the: Sony SEL90M28G FE 90mm f/2.8-22 Macro Lens ($1000) or Sony SEL50M28 FE 50mm F2.8 Macro Lens ($500) as a possible upgrade to...
I had time to try to track down the identity of the large and cool Japanese coin provided by my Secret Saturn (as TIF put it). It had me stumped...
I ordered a nice Roman coin from vcoins store "Ancient Coin Art" October 22 of 2016. I did not hear anything from them for a week so I emailed an...
I located some nice coins in the last weeks of 2016. The first to arrive was found for me by coin seeker extraordinaire, John Anthony: [ATTACH]...
Folks, I received this denarius recently and am having trouble identifying it. I think it may be a Vespasian? [ATTACH] Post your favorite...
Well, I fell in love with this Pan/Nike Hemilitron a while back:...
I love really small coins. It used to annoy me when uncleaned groups contained these miniscule little count fillers. Now I always look at them...
Here is the best photo I could get of this Punic Tetradrachm while in a slab. I have no desire to rekindle the whole slab crusade. Just sayin its...
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