No, it is a Vietnamese silver bar. The surfaces look about like what I'd expect an authentic example to look like, but I would want to see it in...
Suppose for a moment that you collect one very specific area of coinage. Examples of the series are available every few months, but duplicates are...
If I recall, drachmae would be the Latinized form, and drachmai the Greek? But I don't know any Greek, so I could easily be wrong.
Haha! That is literally the best explanation possible. I'm sorry he got your hopes up.
Those coins were very carefully arranged to obscure the initials. I think you owe us an explanation.
Start by taking clear pictures of the obverse and reverse of each coin, then posting them along with the diameter (in millimeters) and the weight...
A coin commemorating the founding of Constantinople, struck late in the reign of Constantine I. The obverse features a bust of Constantinopolis,...
Nothing wrong with that one either.
Looks fine from the pictures.
Arcadius
Technically, this is an issue of Seleukos I struck in the name of his precessor, Alexander. Babylon mint. Struck circa 311-300 BC.
The cut off for my primary collection is the monetary reform of Aurelian in AD 271. But I also look for tokens from places I've lived, struck...
Out of the twenty-five non-sticky threads on the first page of Coin Chat, only nine of them actually belong here. There are one or two that are...
Since I doubt many others have one, I'll share a scorpion from my collection: [IMG] SPAIN. 1st-3rd centuries AD. PB Tessera (13mm, 1.28 g)...
Here is a countermark that I have not been able to identify. My best idea is that it is a double-struck eagle countermark of 7th century Syria....
The Apollo head and the horse are by this point so devolved that the design is maybe better described as a pattern of dots. If you arrange the...
You're nuts. These are for my top-pop set. The price jump from MS 65 to... oh I can't do it anymore. This is all sarcasm.
They're shot 66. Crack 'em and try NGC.
It's a fake tetradrachm of Syracuse produced for jewelry, copying a type struck in the late 6th century BC.
Private sale, or buy/bid?
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