My earliest "brick & mortar" recollections were walk-ups in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana, run by really nice old (then!) men in the early...
Tacitus INVICTVS spelled out [ATTACH] Probus INVICT [ATTACH] VIRTVS PROBI INVIVTI AVG (part of the Ticinum EQVITI coded series - VI-I)...
Best wishes for an uneventful voyage. Decentius CHI-RHO's are not all that easy to find. Mine are both pretty bad. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I can't explain why but I have never been attracted tp the IMP dated coins as much as the other Easterns. I have no Spes and only one remotely...
Read again. There is no N before IVS. Andres2 got it. Mine is the third workshop rather than the fourth like the coin in question. It was $5 in...
We all will have an opinion. I see this coin as appropriate to go unsold. The listing identified it correctly as not attributable to Sellwood...
Use the Coin Talk search function and you will find quite a few posts where aurei have been shared by some of our members. A few of them are...
This statement will offend a number of photographers but they are largely one that would not recognize a good photo if they saw one. The state...
My most attractive Decentius is from Arles and has contrast from sand. [ATTACH] Unless you prefer the plain brown wrapper Trier..... [ATTACH]...
This 14.17g uncia was one of my first Republican coins. [ATTACH]
This Galba was never in my pocket but I always believed it was used as a pocket piece a century or two ago. [ATTACH]
Old, here. When there is such a question I usually would say there is a middle ground.
250? Don't guess incorrectly who is on the reverse. Using the obverse and AE would be plenty. Most hits on Herodotus' suggestions are silver.
How are you deciding the T is the city rather than the third officina of Siscia? I'd need to look up the series to see if there might be a *P and...
I do not see this as a gouge but a weak struke that did not fill both sides of the die with the thin flan. The dent on the reverse lines up with...
I know nothing of this mint or type. Some time ago I sold one during one of my weeding phases. I have no idea who bought it. [ATTACH] That...
My only EI 3d weighs 1.4g and suffers from doublestriking. What is that in the upper left reverse field? Could it be the initial of the replica...
I missed where you said anything about checking it with a magnet.
That seems to be common for Moderna recipients I know. The first is nothing and the second is hard. That brings up the question of whether the...
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_1867-0101-1713 I must note that there are many coins that leave me uncertain whether they are...
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