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See the link below from APMEX. The coin is from the "Seven Hills Hoard"....
Parthicus Maximus, Thanks for the interesting post with excellent photos. Are the coins illustrated from your collection ?
catadc, I don't see any evidence of tooling o_O. What triggered your suspicion ?
Sallent, Your example is an excellent one too :rolleyes:, although I think you're low-balling the value of the Owl posted. From what I've seen the...
Sallent makes some good points that escape collectors of modern slabbed coins. I'd like to illustrate one example that shows the lunacy I'm...
That's a handsome coin :woot:, especially considering its tiny size, & a Virgil Brand provenance doesn't get any better ;).
I like that definition although it doesn't fit me. I've been a collector / dealer most of my years as a numismatist & have helped many collectors...
This is the only Macrinus coin I have left: A Tet from Cyrrhestica, Beroea, 14.80 gm, 26 mm. This coin wasn't a "junk box special" :smuggrin:....
There are many different varieties of this tetradrachm struck in the name of Trajan. The photos of the coin below I sold at a heritage auction in...
Sir Coin Collector, I think Lord Marcovan hit a double with his two Sicilian coins. Attached below are photos of a Sicilian AR Pierreale in my...
Are these E bay sellers really trolling for chumps or are they mentally ill people suffering with episodes of delusion :wacky:? These adds do...
For comparison here is a denarius of a youthful Caracalla, AD 200, Rome Mint, 3.30 gm, with a attractive depiction of BONVS EVENTVS on the...
Then maybe you should have said jade green instead of jade....
[ATTACH] Eduard, Did you know jade comes in many colors, not just green o_O? Older generations of Chinese actually preferred white jade over...
Thanks for your feedback :joyful:. Your hypothesis on the Musi River coins sounds reasonable too ;).
There are many handsome Lysimachus Tets in this thread :jawdrop:! I think I posted this example I sold at the Heritage auction on January 16-17,...
TuckHard, Those are interesting coins, thanks for sharing ;). I don't think a literate Chinese would be fooled by these coins but the local people...
ro1974, Photographing bronze coins to get accurate color can be difficult, however, the color seen in my photograph is what the coin looks like in...
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