Wait, 25 total for Postumus? That seems low to me. I think there's at that many just on Coinarchives.
I have very little experience with consignments listed at fixed price, but a lot with auctions - I process most of the groups that come into CNG's...
Very cool! Identify obscure mints has always been an interest of mine. I've sometimes thought about putting together a map or graphic that shows...
Illegal, but more or less tolerated, depending on the kind of counterfeit, time period, and location. See: Boon, "Counterfeit Coins in Roman...
The coinage of Carausius and Allectus is absolutely fascinating to me. I'm sure I'd be collecting and writing on these if I lived in Britain....
Bingo. I was initially thinking it was provincial, but with the obverse shown, there's no doubt this is a contemporary imitation of a Claudius II...
Can you show the other side? The figure is probably Artemis Phosphoros.
@germalit PM me, I'll take a look.
Take the $1000 and run! You could buy a nicer example and have it slabbed for that money.
The prices for that sale were abnormally high. Not only did you have a major player going after virtually everything Greek, but this was a major...
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Ah, I see now! I didn't think the Sogdians struck any gold, and I've only ever seen these referred to as "Silk Road area." There's an article on...
I don't think this actually happened as such, at least not in any official capacity outside of the two examples I listed. The emperor, with the...
"Damnatio" refers to the practice of "damnatio memoriae," but its very rarely seen in numismatics. The only officially sanctioned examples, to my...
These are my thoughts exactly.
We return them to the consignor. Realistically though, they sit on my desk for a few months. Returns are pretty much at the bottom of my to-do...
Gotta pull the trigger when you can. No ragrets. [IMG]
There's actually a very simple economic explanation for this. You see, cataloging coins and putting them up for auction takes time and at least a...
I think @TIF has a nice Oitaioi. ;-)
Except that one guy who bids one increment higher than you all the time, I'm sure. ;)
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