I'm sure there are some among us who are not aware of the coin in the British Museum to which Ken refers. They call it the Pig's Trotter leaving...
Recently the Richmond Virginia Museum of Fine Arts took apart their full length statue of Caligula and replaced the head at a different angle...
I do agree that one is better than my common and ugly example (the $56 version). I wonder how much of that $3500 is the rare bust type. Not much...
Delta epsilon was very common for 9 from Antioch but Alexandria dodged using the unlucky number 9 by writing out the name of the number. Did...
A combination of expected letter spacing and style leads me to guess Constantius II. Coins of Constantine II as Augustus are les common since he...
There is a word for this sort of collecting: Normal. It is easy to get carried away and buy every coin we see in some area (e.g. Parthian) and...
No camera makes files with names like proxy.php. Why did you convert it? Most cameras will make an image many times larger than needed to post...
I see SM_E which suggests Heraclea, Cyzicus or Nicomedia.
The only way to learn to ID coins is to practice but rather than buying the worst coins, it might do you more good to practice on photos of better...
It is even worse than Pishpash related. At the time RIC was written, the authors made a very small effort to check a short list of public...
Welcome to Coin Talk. May I also suggest not uploading an image of small text which is hard to read compared to regular text. It would work as...
I like your new and improved holder. It looks a lot like mine except I place my accession number in the lower left corner (in pen) and my sort...
Another of the ungradeables? Do they not grade coins that are not EF+?
Just an opinion: These are great books for what they are but they are not 'readers'. Most people use them for reference reading just a few...
The sale included several books I have enjoyed owning at less than I paid years ago. Of course things that I like will bore others and...
I am completely uncomfortable separating the coins of Artabanos II and III. I do not have one that I have IDed as AIII but that means nothing....
The CoinIndia link mentions the progressive stylization of these in their paragraph #27. My page shows this a little more graphically....
Sorry, you can't say "Maues" without seeing my Maues elephant AE28 hemiobol. [ATTACH]
IDK but the mintmark in the field is different so I'd start by researching how many mints produced these.
While I agree with the books suggested and would promote Sear to the top, we just have to live with the fact that there are a million types and no...
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