Antoninus is my favorite emperor and I recently had three aurei of him at the same time but felt I was showing my bias so I sold off my lesser...
Great sets, IdesofMarch01! Having seen them again now, I'd probably pick your Augustus aureus as my favorite of the groups. It's great portrait of...
Here's my Hadrian aureus, which I've posted before: [IMG]
Definitely a fake, and deceptively listed as a replica. Here's my (authentic) example: [IMG]
Why would anyone in their right mind throw money away? And in what world is numismatics a destructive hobby?
I have an "A" collection and a "B" collection. The average price of my "A" coins is 10x that of the "B" set and while the less expensive coins are...
Berk's pictured coin is indeed silver, but the title is: "Philip I Millennial Games Coinage" and he doesn't specifically say it must be a denarius...
Thanks!
As dougsmit said, it's a bit difficult to count precisely as some are inexact matches due to overly specific types being listed. In my collection...
Great choices, and very quick research on your part finding the auction records :)
The closest coin stylistically is the Demareteion dekadrachm, ranked at #5. Here's a $250K example (not mine): [IMG] Here's a tetradrachm by...
"5. Metal (gold, silver, bronze)" I admit that I've fallen into the trap of preference by metal type. It wasn't until IdesOfMarch01 posted his set...
Great discussion so far! IdesOfMarch01 brought up some great points and I’m going to expand upon them a bit from my perspective. I'm using...
I think this Eurocentric bias is seen a lot today with ancient coins. Personally, I haven't looked into anything outside of Greece and Rome at...
Harlan gave me a copy so I think I win when thrifty is considered ;)
I agree completely. The one that sold last fall went for just under $3 million so even if the list was based solely on price, it's still...
In reading the recent thread "Your dream ancient/medieval coin(s)", I was a bit surprised to see how many were not on the list of the "100...
I've tried and failed a few times to get an EID MAR. At the moment, there are none coming up for a while according the auction houses I've asked,...
Dies get worse and worse until they stop being used. The terminal state is simply the final state of the dies prior to them being taken out of...
Thanks! I'm still working on improving my photography abilities and will be reshooting this once my new lights arrive in a couple days.
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