This coin has been upgraded but since I haven't yet sold it, it certainly qualifies for this thread: [ATTACH] AUGUSTUS AE Sestertius (25.72 g.)...
I always thought this coin made Claudius look a little bit as if he'd seen a ghost... [ATTACH]
Excellent upgrade to your previous coin. Not only is the reverse almost 100% perfect in showing the entire column, but the obverse portrait is...
I'm pretty certain that dealers who purchase at auctions (at least, at the same auctions at which I buy my coins) do NOT get a break on the...
Wow! I'd rate this coin a lot better than fine. The portrait is good quality, and the legends, especially on the reverse, are outstanding. Most...
One of the three remaining coins needed for my Twelve Caesars was a small bronze (as or dupondius) of Vitellius. These are quite rare in EF...
Thanks everyone for the responses and compliments. Feel free to post Augustus coins!
In the last few years, progress on completing my Twelve Caesars AE collection (sestertii and dupondius/as) has been very slow. It was only after...
It's doubtful you'll ever feel 100% comfortable about this coin without having it authenticated by an expert directly (coin in hand). BUT, you'll...
Most of the collectors here do that once in a while, so for the most part "no harm no foul" as the sportscasters would say. But in a broader...
While I have no problem with (and even appreciate) sarcasm when it's deserved, I draw the line at unnecessary mean-spiritedness and agree with you...
You know, I was going to make the same point about these rules on that site. While those rules seem rigid and summarily dictatorial, if you...
Would it be possible for you to post pictures of (or links to) the known fakes that you think are close? This would be helpful in analyzing the...
While I'm not overly familiar with this "scale," my understanding of it would mean that "rarest emperor" would be the one for whom the fewest...
By this criteria, Otho, who reigned only three months, would be the rarest emperor(?) Note that Otho's reign was so short that he didn't even...
It's not clear to me what the definition of "rarest emperor" should be. For example, does it mean the emperor who actually issued the fewest...
This is a pretty good fake. If I were to be able to spot it as a counterfeit, the giveaway would be the artificial smoothness of the fields on...
Any chance you could post an individual picture of your counterfeit tiberius (obverse & reverse) in higher resolution? It might be instructive...
Wow. The obverse is so heavily tooled that I'm not sure that's even the original portrait on this coin. I see almost none of the original device...
Continuing our vocabulary lessons, our next word has greek roots apropos of coin collecting: callipygian.
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