Good points, everyone. I respect anyone who can remember that the obverse die is usually on the anvil while the reverse die is on the punch. :p...
My bad. Thank you. :bart: g
Doug: Thank you for the above information. I respect your attention to details without losing the historical context of the coin....
Larry: I love the almost flawless edges on your coin. g.
[I wish I had a nice Magnentius Chi-Rho coin, too. I took the image from Wikipedia.] Doug: Thank you for posting your example of the...
Well, count me among the 99.9%. Some people only study Ancient Roman history to understand the coins. Some people only study the coins to...
Here's the gold EID MAR coin that I mentioned at auction (second coin on left):...
Great link. Interestingly, the museum later had another gold EID MAR on temporary exhibit. This coin wasn't without controversy, either: g.
That's a great chart. Thank you. Too bad that many people can't accept facts and logic. :bangg: I wonder what would happen if they resubmitted...
Them, too. (Believe it or not, I was an English minor in college.) :bart: g.
http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/crime/s/1311548_irreplaceable_coin_collection__dumped_in_bin_by_home_raider :sniper: g.
I won't give any financial advice. If you're interested in "dumping" your gold bullion, get your coins certified (by NGC, for example). Since...
No offense, but why no lovin' for the Ancients? :grandpa: Seriously, when one considers the body of work-some of it unique and groundbreaking-...
Go to the ANA summer seminar on grading. Everyone who went to the grading classes thought they were very helpful. g.
Let me add my thanks to Clinker and Gao for their excellent posts. The problem with books written on Ancient coins is that they tend to be...
Sometimes, when one purchases a membership to one of the slabbing companies, one gets "free" submissions. People will use their "free" submissions...
Another example: http://coins.ha.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=419&Lot_No=51871 Still another and better example (and graded NGC MS63!):...
My bad. The term is haymarking. I got this from a British site: Taken from this site: http://www.davidseamancoins.co.uk/info.php I'm...
Thanks for the reply. I've read that in modern coin terminology, haymarks are hairlines. I could have sworn that recently an expert in British...
What's the story? Did they just put the coins in hay after minting? Were the coins still warm creating the haymarks? Also, how do haymarks...
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