WOW!!! The posts are fantastic!!! I just won on bid a couple examples ...Gallienus and Tyche with a horse and suckling wolf reverse,...
Great selection Of Victorinii (?)----my one example is a tad lower grade than any of yours...purchased long ago, so no photo available as yet..my...
Love the details as well!!! Terrific example!!! And Great patina!!!
Love all the posts..and mine are already among those above...so I'll resist the urge and not be duplicitous (that's a word, right? LOL) JA, that...
Terrific coins guys!!! I also have none to compare them to......and like Bing, I see a lion smoking a cigar !!! I have to get another eye exam...
I'm sure others will shortly chime in...but I believe you got an EXCELLENT deal on it. Since lower fine grades sell for $20-$50 and I would guess...
I just downloaded a file file photo from purchase ...so I'm uploading it here......the others will have to wait until i get a decent digital...
S C, It is a nice piece and an attractive coin with eye appeal for a Type Collection...just over priced and we all have done the same thing --or...
Love that coin Steve, the details on the portrait and eagle are fantastic!!
Yep, a nasty looking bat!!!
Well, here's a Ptolemy (or two)...at a combined cost in hand of less than a hundred...so not a 'bargain' but a nice price overall.... and I had to...
I guess that's a 'Ziggy Zinger', scoring an excellent coin for .50----and a Bing Bargain at $20---it seems I can only get a 'good deal' unless you...
:smuggrin:Great coins, Bing and Mat....I wish I could see the 'chocolate' patina in hand.. Now, as Mat has decreed, I'm off to snatch a "Bing...
With what looks like a coiling tail under Poseidons arm, it looks like a 'monkey' ...Hmmm, Is that where the modern pirates first got the idea??...
Having it slabbed by a grading service really amounts to what you want to spend to do it...If your coin is not cleaned or otherwise 'altered',...
Don't you hate those dudes who plate a coin, adding no value and generally reducing what value the coin had, leaving it worth face value but...
Very nice !!! Many are so worn from circulation, only a 'ghostly' image remains...
Fantastic find and the guys seem to have the value down cold!! Congrats!!! By the way, do you have any other couches you're thinking of replacing???
I think it's a really neat example!!! Tough to find almost any while browsing the usual places for purchase or bid....
This is an example of Marcian...just about the time Eastern Roman became bizarre and 'Byzantine'...Hmmm, when would that precisely be?? Perhaps...
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