Believe me, I do believe that we would all be better off if people calling themselves coin dealers had to have 20 years experience in the hobby...
Rhodes AE27 ~120-84 BC [ATTACH] Next: a Rhodes coin without a flower
Tacitus? Edit needed here? I thought the old stories about Tacitus being an old many had been put to rest years ago. I do not see a 70...
This thread is a bit of a dilemma for me. I like imitations and have a few but we have discussed the subject in the past and I have no firm idea...
I was not counting on you so much as hoping one of your kids is so successful at whatever they choose to do that they buy CNG with their petty cash.
I see it as Alexandria ALE gamma. I do not have one exactly like it but mine is from a bit earlier weight standard with the Gamma in the reverse...
He points out a real problem to some of us. The dealers we valued thirty years ago are thirty years older than they were then. Some have had the...
The Didius and a Manlia (same day) came from a 50 cent pickout pot of very worn/awful bronzes - mostly 'good emperors' - at a coin shop up a few...
Does the Alexandria chapter cover both the Latin and Greek language issues?
I'm having trouble taking seriously anything said in a video that used that picture of a 'Roman' for a 'cover'. I don't know enough about Chola...
I agree with the ID but mine was only 50 cents as a single back in the 60's. When I sold ~150 coins in 1974, I got less than what I paid by quite...
Using the word 'truth' in the same sentence with 'Aureolus' based on the writings of later Roman historians seems to be pushing it a mite. I have...
Perhaps it spent time in a collection that did not believe only MS is worth owning?
We always say 'Welcome to Coin Talk' - well usually, anyway. We each are always seeking an outlet for our coin related efforts. For some, Coin...
That is an unusually well distributed one. They are rare with all the nose, all the legend, all the ship and good water. On mine: What water?...
I most certainly admire such an organized presentation of 800 coins even if it is something in which I do not specialize (144 in my general...
I believe 'strange' is an accurate description. Volusian [ATTACH] Aemelian [ATTACH]
I know nothing but it seems like a good place to post my less than official Domitian dupondius. ex. P. Minns (UK 70's?), ex. Grant Edwards 1989...
There is a point amateurs miss about beards. Some are cultivated as fashion statements by the vain and some result from not shaving by those who...
Under Septimius Severus, the 'Emesa' mint issued a common type with Virtus facing right [ATTACH] and a less common one left. [ATTACH] Also...
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