Apollo, looking majestic atop this winged griffin: [IMG] TROAS, Alexandria. Trebonianus Gallus CE 251-253 AE 21 mm, 4.76 gm Obv: IMP VIB TREB...
That doesn't make sense in so many ways. If the estimate was $150, surely it opened lower than that? If there truly were no other bidders, you...
When I checked ACsearch after reading the OP, I saw that coin. If I'd seen it offered by someone other than NAC or another biggie, I'd have...
If authentic it would be quite valuable ($20K?), as are all medallions of Antinous. I have no idea about the authenticity. More information...
Yes... but tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands... who knows how many... coins that have been circulating among collectors for decades or...
Here's another Alexandrian Zeus Ammon I haven't shown often enough :D [IMG] EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius AE drachm, uncertain regnal year...
ACR had a few of the nicer coins in the same 360 format when I bought my Agathokles tetradrachm (avatar coin). It definitely fed my fervor!! It...
The horn of Ammon... that may be the most common attribute in my entire collection! I won't post them all here :D. A favorite I still don't have...
I have several problem coins which were apparently waxed (Ren Wax?) by some earlier collector. Corrosion occurred anyway and the shiny waxed...
Savoca Blue auctions are fun because of the incomplete (and not infrequently wrong) attributions... and the low starting prices, of course! I've...
That is extremely worrisome! Guilty until proven innocent :(.
Here's an attractive Athena I haven't shown in a while. RC's Athena has an attractive face. Mine's, ahem... attributes... are further south :D....
[IMG] CELTIC, Central Europe (Rhineland). "Dancing Mannikin" type 65 BCE - CE 1 AR Quinarius, 13 mm, 1.62 gm Obv: dancing mannikin right, head...
What a fun lot! That's how I became enamored of Roman Egyptian coins-- group lots. Yes, that Aurelian is Emmett 3919, year 5. The reverse is...
(edited: replied about a different coin) Pellinore's coin does look like the "bite" was made sometime after striking. Perhaps there was a flan...
I don't know-- a defect depression prior to pouring the flan... if the flans are made by pouring molten metal into individual impressions in sand...
I'm not sure that is the case with Roman Egyptian flans. I'd expect to see more sprue remnants even if each individual flan was "machined" to...
Sounds like Herakles would be sentenced to Anger Management classes if he were alive today :D. Excellent research, @Jochen! On the...
The close-up images have been unartfully "adjusted" in a photo editing program, causing the overcleaned appearance. It looks like the images have...
I don't understand what you mean by this. The value, as in it is worth more slabbed? That just isn't true in most cases. It may be true for...
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