Thanks for the explanation -- I didn't even notice that one was bronze, because I was focusing entirely on the designs.
Many thanks. @zumbly, for your very detailed and thoughtful comment. Specifically with respect to the comment I quote here, I agree with you for...
The auction description mentions the NGC numbers, and the auction hasn't taken place yet. Doesn't NGC take photos before slabbing?
Thanks to @zumbly and others for reminding me, in describing their own coins, that YΠATOC = COS, so the YΠATOC B on the reverse of my example...
Thanks! I very much look forward to it!
No. Do you have a link?
Congratulations! I had no idea that you collect at that level. Amazing!
I can't comment on the usefulness or interest of the "history" volume, but I'm pretty sure that if you have any intention of using it as a...
I'm pretty sure that on yours I see not only the deer's legs, but also its head poking out to the left past the rock. Yours really is nicer than...
Not everything I've bought in the last few months is either a Roman Republican coin or a Roman Provincial from Alexandria -- here's a Roman...
I bought this coin (my only one from Rhodes), even though it has a small flan missing some of the design, because I thought the face of Helios on...
The Star of David was not used as a Jewish symbol in ancient times or even for much of the European Middle Ages. It didn't become common until the...
For both coins I have that have been attributed to Viminacium, there seems to be some difference of opinion regarding that attribution. Does...
I was going to ask the same question -- because I couldn't tell either whether any differences result from tooling or just differing photography...
I haven't been here all that long, but I haven't noticed anyone -- whether dealers or their "apologists" -- making excuses for tooling, etc. Can...
@+VGO.DVCKS: so how far back do you trace your ancestry? Have you been an aristocrat all this time without telling us? Should we call you Sir Vgo?...
I think it's safe to say that coin books are very unlikely to be fakes!
All I know about Bertolami is that their coins on VCoins tend to be very optimistically priced.
That coin is very much on my want list!
Philip II, billon Tetradrachm, 248-249 AD, Syria, Seleucis and Pieria, Antioch Mint. Obv. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from...
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