I call dibs on this when you decide to sell it!
1st-3rd centuries AD is the best I can say for sure. I haven't found a way to date this 'Ephesian' series yet, but we can figure some out by...
Exactly. With those, there are large numbers of cut specimens known. And the design itself is conducive to cutting. If I had the free time I'd...
I think that most of the cut coins we see on this forum have nothing to do with making change. If that was something that frequently happened,...
I swear half of what I write about tesserae is explaining how to distinguish them from seals. I don't think there's more than three dealers who...
IMO, that theory only still comes up because it has traction. It was the first suggestion offered back in the 18th century and its stuck around...
My money is on imitation. The style is reminiscent of certain imitations struck in East Anglia, but I can't find an exact match. Cf:...
I've added a few dozen great new pieces to my collection recently, but I've been particularly excited to share this tessera with everyone. For...
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Ha, this isn't like US coins where you're expected to memorize each die pairing. All you really need to know is how to access that information....
This is an issue of Lysimachos in the name of Alexander. Kolophon mint. Struck circa 301-297 BC. Thompson 119 var. (lion forepart); Price 1836
Yup. Its a-okay. Kolophon mint. Struck under Menander or Kleitos, circa 322-319 BC. Price P43.
This is going to be an eastern Roman provincial issue. Perhaps somewhere in Mesopotamia, around the late Severans. I don't have the references to...
Totally different. I concur with the ΔHMOC. I think the reverse legend is ЄIΛIΩN, which I can't find attested in Icard. Ilium doesn't appear to...
Tough question. Easily thousands of hours now. I was probably spending at least two hours a day looking at stuff. I know that, since I started...
This is why the "big fish" in the market usually don't last for long. Sheikhs and movie stars come and go and generally don't stick around for all...
I'm always quite skeptical of these early cast bronzes. I think that most appearing on the market today are from Spain, and date much later than...
The problem with acquiring aurei from Uranius Antoninus, Saturninus, and a number of others isn't price. So many coins aren't available at any...
To echo what the two above me just said, the most important thing to have is passion. This is a tough field to crack into partly because there is...
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