The Aurelia Collection was quite nice; unfortunately little known and underappreciated. Here's my example, from NAC 78. Ex The Numismatic Auction...
...which doesn't seem all that impressive really, until you realize she's doing it on ice skates!
This is the rarest denarius of Julius Caesar, Crawford 452/5 (rarest along with its "large head" sibling, Crawford 452/4, and excluding Crawford...
The distinction sometimes made between "a troll" and "trollish behavior" seems apropos here.
He seems to be "legit," in the sense he's been around for awhile and posted on various topics. Certainly he's woefully misinformed and quite...
You waited three weeks to come back and p in the punch bowl again? A waste of our time in my eyes.
One plausible explanation of how coins like this made their way to the New World is intermingled in the ballast of European ships. Cool find!...
I consider a coin to be rare if it appears for sale--anywhere--no more than once every two or three years on average. Phil Davis
I'm not quite ready to say that unquestionably genuine LEG PRI denarii don't exist at all. I will say however that I've never seen one in my...
Here are a couple: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Phil Davis
I think it's sloppy wording, forgetting or ignoring Roman gold struck prior to Claudius' invasion. If enforced literally, it should mean...
Using the following as a Google search: syd craw sear abbreviations gave me this page, 4th down on the list:...
That's absolutely incredible. It takes a lot to, so to speak, knock my socks off. Phil Davis
I take it your "global committee" also prefers to remain in the shadows. Since you're also a self-proclaimed "dealer" and "numismatist," do you at...
I try really hard to avoid flan cracks, but here's one that snuck by: [ATTACH] and a few other early quinarii without flan cracks; visible ones...
Reverse is Pan, obverse is his buddy Silenus. Crawford 342/1. Phil Davis [IMG]
I would think that by the time a person has been slabbed, their understanding of pretty much anything will be drastically impaired. Phil Davis
I'll add worn coins to my collection if they meet my standards of rarity; i.e. types that appear on average no more than a few times per decade....
This is one of the few coins I regret not holding onto when I sold my Imperial collection a few years back. Phil Davis [IMG]
I won my only target, lot 932, with a phone bid. Phil Davis [IMG]
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