Just an opinion: If you are buying lots that are all fakes, you really need to reevaluate where you are shopping for coins. Finding coins worth...
It is very hard to pass up an opportunity to re-re-re-post my favorite Mithradates II. Last I looked (I can't keep up) it was Ekbatana, Sellwood...
24. Over the years, I have generally avoided buying coins just because they were high grade and have always preferred coins with some wear but...
Aspendos is listed as first in what I have read but both used the type over a long period and dates give to coins are generally very wide spans....
The type is also found from Selge but the style is not as good. [ATTACH]
I think I have shown every Augustus I have on CT before. I may have shown this one but it is not a favorite and different from most shown above....
Natural or 'assisted', I always consider rainbow coins to be retoning after cleaning. 'Natural' after so many years should go to gray or even...
I see this as trying too hard. Where do you get the idea of a three month interregnum? How did the existence of Delmatius and Hannibalianus keep...
To me the evidence is conclusive. There are coins of Constantine I with both two and one standard. He was alive when the reduction occurred...
More than that.:smuggrin::smuggrin: 23. Septimius' coins from 194AD when he was out East taking care of 'business' are common from the Eastern...
I suspect the desire to erase Musa from history was greater in some political factions than others. If they just needed flans, we might have more...
These come with other monograms and worn to a point that even I could have one. The appeal of the type to me is the fabric....
That is 2.4g and 1.7g on average. Obviously they did not weigh each flan on a three decimal place scale but I tend to think of any coin over 2g...
A coin of 2.4g should have been made alongside the two standards coins. Constantine died after the weight reduction that brought us the one...
We need to stop being bothered by experts who weigh coins to the thousanth of a gram, measure them to a hundredth of a millimeter but fail to...
To Augustus, I would suspect the 'old kings' would be the Seleucids and other Hellenistic rules that he, and Rome, had replaced as the prime world...
22. I always liked the coins that showed the emperor and his wife (or anyone else - see my #8 above). My coin for day 22 is my favorite with...
Two important skills in cleaning coins are selecting 'battles' that you can win and knowing when to stop. Dirt washes off but surfaces corroded...
Your coin has a line across the head ending in the eye which could be a seam rather than a scratch but certainly CNG would have spotted that. My...
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