Neither Constantinople nor Alexandria strike me as consistant one way or the other but each has a sense of long nose formality that is appealing...
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I have not studied this and do not have this type but mine have words broken at legends. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Can you show many...
Frank does take extra care with Sasanians. Perhaps he has had some problems in the past. I note there is a lot of difference in metal soundness...
That is a question many of us have asked but for which there is no certain answer. I am sure that there was 'guidance' but whether that came from...
I agree that there is a lot of room for personal preference here. Antioch coins tend to be well made and easy to find in decent shape but I...
Do these exist with other magistrate names suggesting that this was a magistrate rather than the historical figure?...
Born c.160, Domna would have been ~33 when her first coins were made and died ~57. One might expect a certain amount of change over that period....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Lidz I might suggest sending a fan letter to the author personally rather than the paper. Start with praise...
A reputable auction house would not put a Jotapian in a bulk lot. If genuine, they could get more for it. If fake, including it in a bulk lot to...
I have to wonder how much the artist that removed the hole was paid. It must have been less than the difference in the value increase between...
About 15 years ago I made this background for desktop to see if I could. To view it, you would have to install it as a tiled (repeating over and...
That is a question I struggle with. At first I didn't delete the RAW files but saved them along with the final paired JPG and reduced (CT...
I agree 100% but have to add there are a few other considerations here. The style on the Medusa varies a lot on these with some dies being...
Looks like Aurelius to me... I say Provincial. (Antioch?) Lot 87 is Trajan; lot 89 is Hadrian. There were many unsold that might have been...
Where we differ is the assumption that using what RIC authors thought was an inappropriate reverse was an error requiring calling them 'Hybrid'....
I start with a blank of 9999x6666 pixels which gets cropped for every shot but insures that images are only resized once when everything is done....
If you research these, you will find quite a number of variations and a wide range of denominations. [ATTACH] 0.3g [ATTACH] They even come in...
Sorry I offended. I suggest you Ignore me.
I have no use for the concept of dpi which I consider a matter for book printers who are trying to print coins in exact size. I shoot each side...
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