As I understood it from the beginning this was exactly the reason for slabs. Without them, either the seller or the buyer needed to have a clue...
They seem to have reached Hadrian. I want to see Domna but all her coins are provincials so far. I want to see the coin Cohen saw to list Cohen...
I realize BnF is the French national collection but wrongly assumed that 'de Luynes' was a French seller of which I have never heard. The style...
Really? I have only had a couple but it does not look 'right' to me. You can buy it as you wish.
I do not have a match for that coin but this is the same year and basic type for the co-Augustus (and father) Valerian. [ATTACH] My birdy...
No, I know nothing. I would have to research whether there was some sort of alliance between the cities but copies for the express purpose of...
This is a terrible attempt at a fake. I do not know the seller. Are they regular fake sellers or just not at all familiar with ancient coins?
My favorite Faustina II is this Alexandrian tetradrachm when she was 'first daughter'. It is dated year 12 of Antoninus Pius with Dikaiosyne on...
My first show QPO and a stork with a large chunk missing from the obverse die. My staters come from the period called 'dumpy' in the literature....
Sorry forthe sidetrack. After Probus is Carus. A proper Carus coin needs a clearly bald head. I always like the shield coins that show the back...
While I love the little coins, the fact remains that they are harder to find in pristine condition than are tetradrachms. This is probably mostly...
Unfortunately what I have seen too often over the years is that the first lesson learned is that all you have to do is find someone who knows less...
The Macedon is odd looking to me due to centering. I had thought of those as regularly very well centered perhaps because of the cup shape of the...
No, we don't have a Zenobia but she does bring up the question of who needs to be included in a list like this. Vabalathus was never really...
How soon we forget. I have posted this before several times, I suspect, but do not know how it differs in minute details (other than grade). I...
I still find it hard to accept that we have people willing to pay for even the lowest bulk rate slab prices for you to look at VG-F LRB. I would...
What I find scary is how a coin that far gone saved exactly what was needed to ID it. The obverse is terrible but there is a trace of RIVS which...
There are those in the scholarly community who call all coins that do not follow the rules they have set to be errors. I do not see Jupiter on a...
This has been a very interesting thread. I have not considered the coins of client kings or the things of uncertain status (Anonymous Pagan,...
The type is also found in silver but mine is very ordinary. Perhaps there is a reason for the issue being less common?...
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