General rule: When you first become emperor you tend to use long names including parts of your family names or predecessor's name to establish...
My page was mentioned but not linked so here it is for anyone interested. http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/philip.html The part about...
I don't think we disagree on this as much as you think. The point as I see it is that beginners as represented by most posters here on Coin Talk...
...and now for a word from the other side (devil's advocate). Chris, as a collector of long standing is right to be interested in such a sale but...
Very nice coin with interesting types you don't see every day and ligate letters I always think make them more interesting. I don't have this one.
You can't tell from the photo. My guess is that the coin was holed and plated to use as jewelry some time in the past and the coin could be real....
'Roman Coin' is a tetradrachm of Hadrian from the Provincial mint of Alexandria regnal year 14: http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=253686...
sorry for double post
After receiving the first completed answer sheet for my recently posted quiz I became aware that question 3-2 was unclear or erroneous so I posted...
I know so little about these but you may like to see my page with a similar coin: http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/feac68sal.html
...but both the last two are dime or smaller. There are probably 100,000 neat ancients in 20mm and under that sell for under $300.
Certainly I agree that Shapur I would be a nice coin but my reading of the OP question made me doubt my suggestion of Gordian III as too obscure...
Any ancient gold for 1.5x melt would be really ugly, probably holed and questionably fake. For $300 you could get a fair condition Athenian owl...
A tip: There are a couple hundred Roman rulers shown on coins. The first step for ID is to eliminate the ones it can not be and start with the...
I have interest in this answer as well. There are many Indian coins on eBay that I have found interesting but many sellers do not accept Paypal,...
I would be interested in hearing how old a collection included these. They are the most common fake seen in the last 5 years or so (maybe 10?)...
The tiny bust should be Licinius II, no?
It is a very presentable coin. There are a couple different styles of portraits for Trajan. This is a good example of the heavier one. The...
Agree. Licinius suffers from being very common but lacks the added appeal Constantine gets from being Christian. There are so many of the Genius...
It appears to be a 1562 milled 6d of Elizabeth I but the photo and my expertise are both too poor to allow saying whether it is real. I see...
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