Really nice coin and write up! I will point out that several types of post reform (16 as) denarii also have the X value mark. Many crossed the X...
Read this outdated article if you must but the information in it has been discredited to my satisfaction long ago and an organization that charges...
I fail to understand how documentation can separate the coins I paid $1 for in 1963 but have no receipt for, from the coins I have from the John...
When you buy a group of coins for $120 plus tax and they average out to $12, you don't really get to say you got a deal for the coin at $12 unless...
This is my best Victorinus. You can see him peaking out under the Carausius struck over him. [ATTACH] or same type without Carausius [ATTACH]
This full legend one isn't mine anymore, JA sold it down the river and back to Europe after none here wanted it. I hold the rough edge against...
I find it interesting that collectors new to ancients but experienced with moderns see a difference between MS66 and MS65 but see these as the...
Appropriate sacrifices would be sticking a knife in a coin slab and twisting.
I'll see ac.m's reservation and raise it to include every coin shown there. I have seen fakes of every type shown there. I'm sure ANA knows the...
As always we have a fine write-up by AJ. I recall once seeing (but could not find it today) a discussion of the elephant variety shown on these...
Not spending all day online usually means I see threads after they have been swiped so I feel odd returning to the topic but everyone knows I'm no...
The question is whether practice would make me like phone pix better but when I get home I'll definitely reshoot with the camera. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
The undulating pattern is the top of Artemis' head from the undertype flattened by the second strike. I'm still unclear on the letters on the reverse
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] AE23 weight not taken yet Some of you know how much I hate cell phone photos but I'm sending this from 700 miles west of my coin...
Another denarius combines the Janus and full length galley rather than just the prow. There are several of these available in the usual places...
I go off on a little vacation to visit my 101 YO MIL and you guys almost get in fights. Be good and I won't make you look at the 11 coins I got...
Yes, we next have to address what the best single coin for each of these areas might be. For this thread, I selected slightly better grade coins...
It's OK, Steve, I only had two cabooooses. Time for someone else to show 8 or 17 or some Greeks or......
Picking my 15 made me realize that the RIC centered idea slighted two areas so we should add a Gallic coin of Postumus through Tetricus or a...
volume 5a : Valerian–Florian (253–276), by Percy H. Webb, London, 1927 [ATTACH] volume 5b : Marcus Aurelius Probus–Maximian (276–310), by Percy...
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