Great post and really cool artifacts. Never knew anything about those until now. John
Nice.
Congratulations! Where did you find this one?
I think it's a matter of personal taste how gnarly an edge you can tolerate. A certain amount of edge character can add to a coin and certainly...
Happy birthday Bing! Hope we meet again at a FUN show or otherwise when the world normalizes again. :-) John
The worst of course is when you buy a prize coin and find out later it's a fake. That has to be the worst feeling.
Hi Donna, looking at the edge photos you posted which show splits going all the way from obverse to reverse and the corrosion on the edges of your...
Not an ancient coin. What does the lettering spell out?
Lol
Welcome to cointalk! There are so many cool and affordable ancient coins with people, places, gods, goddesses, cities, empires, emperors and...
Not a bad rendering. John
A really nice clean coin! And it is a circam too. Great pickup. John
That is what we are here for! :-)
Does the oktadrachm have a flan chip or was the flan originally produced like that? I think it is an attractive coin either way and the odd plan...
Here is one my favorites. I had to get it after seeing TIF's canopic theme coins. [ATTACH] Hadrian, A.D. 133- 134 Alexandria, Egypt, Year 18 Ӕ...
You have a knack for finding the interesting material. :-)
Those are very cool! Are they official issues of a country or are they more like a token? John
Did I mention the last one is a fake? :-)
An interesting and mysterious coin. I love the double border, I have never seen that before either. Maybe the celator who created it got...
Here are a few more. Don't have my detailed attributions handy. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Watch out for the next one, it is a FAKE!!!!!...
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