Before DonnaML posted, I was fighting the urge to mention HR-LP and a dozen others who use this business model. IMHO the worst case scenario is...
Ephesus Numismatics (Tom Wood) is one of my favorite people in the hobby. He specializes in Biblical which is a very minor part of my interest....
I suggest letting the people who propose Bicharactus and a coin name rather than 'recoinage' and the people who insist on using Aurelianus for the...
Long before ancient coins became too expensive for me to continue collecting, I dropped out of the collecting of old images. Considering the...
Some owls are more equal than others. The most common of all are the tetradrachms. I'm not sure I believe the 1/8 obol exists from the official...
That would seem the reasonable guess since there are none of the denomination for Severus Alexander. I suspect there was resistance to the idea...
Certainly I saw several things I would like in their upcoming sale and things I would have bought for more in the past but my bad experiences with...
This was a very informative post on a subject completely foreign to my collecting interests that shows there is still a vast amount of things to...
I have nothing new to add but repeats of a denarius and a quinarius. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Does anyone have the as of this moneyer? The faces tend...
I looked it up and can confirm that this lot was the one illustrated as Pozzi 1634 where it was graded Supurbe with mention of the test cut. Pozzi...
Perhaps I should have used a smiley but Postumus is a 'fine looking fellow'.:smuggrin: Once there was a little girl that mistook me for Santa....
RIC 36 volume VII page 605 obverse 7c (bust B4) officina B (R4 - these are more common with shop Z which is only R2 and recorded for all six)
All of my coins of Postumus are interesting to me. He was such a fine looking fellow. I do find it interesting that many of his laureate head...
Coins of Tetricus II as AVGustus are rare to the point that, if you think you have one, you are wrong. I see the difficulty of telling barbarous...
Have you figured out the other two (two each)? This one is a bit scarcer but all of mine came from the same pickout pot years ago. I like this...
I did not see it but 'very rare' could refer to any sestertius of Geta as Caesar since that period pretty much lines up with the time they made so...
My 7.5g dupondius is not very heavy for that denomination and even light compared to my-your/your light double sestertii. [ATTACH] However my...
Are you sure the coins were not priced down because of the rumor that Numerian stinks? Many coins of this period appear on wide spread, thin...
I find the interesting question to be why they made any at all if the economy was still satisfied with the leftovers from the previous century....
Close but no cigar: Gallienus year nine. I have no eight even though Emmett list a couple of them as common. What I would like is a Gallienus...
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