How about there was a longer gap between the two types than usually believed. History records battles but tends to ignore coinage. Wikipedia...
I was not planning on using this coin this month. I have posted it many times on Coin Talk but the fact remains that 99% of all 'serious' ancient...
You may be a bit cynical but the official Coin Talk position makes you look like a Hello Kitty fan....
27. As we near the end of the month, I have to be careful to insure certain favorites make the list. Earlier a few 'less than official' coins...
If I were in the class that allowed such bids, the land tortoise I would seek would not be selected for the shell but for the head detail. Rather...
Some, but not all, Legions honored on coins of Septimius Severus showed some, but not all, standards with small Capricorns. These vary greatly in...
I always have a preference for Alexandrian types that refer to the 'old' Eqyptian gods over the ones imported from Greece (Zeus and friends)....
26. While maridvnvm correctly pointed out that Mars is rare from Alexandria, the god is hardly common from 'Emesa' either. My offering for the...
Thanks, I took over a hundred pictures and we drove right by the Fredericksburg VNA coin show without stopping. Climbing on rocks has more appeal...
Mars is a hard one from Alexandria. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] I wonder how many different dies there were for these. I have not looked into it. This...
It would be nice, just once to have an article in the common press that was more informative than sensational. The author says the coins were...
Another favorite of mine is this very oval, Rome mint AE1 with SAC MON VRB AVGG ET CAESS NN RQ [ATTACH] Probably my most scarce Maximinus II is...
That is a bust of the god Serapis. One does not dismember a god so we must call this a statue.
25. September 25 is my wife's birthday and we are going out for a little trip early tomorrow so I'll post my 25th coin just a bit early. The...
[ATTACH] There was a time I was buying any pretty coin from workshop 9.
Same type but different style and still an imitation. [ATTACH]
Baltimore, March, 2001, was a good show for me, too. I bought 30 coins (of which I still have about 25) but none of them were from Berk and the...
There must be hundreds of variations of stereoscopes. Certainly the best have a third tube for shooting 2D photos while you view the coin in 3D....
My great regret is that an ocean separates me from the collector I would most enjoy meeting in person. The 'dots' on these coins have a distinct...
I have long been a fan of this die's eye style. My reverse is soooo ordinary but I got the coin in 1987 so I'll keep it. [ATTACH] I appreciate...
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