Many of the Zeno coins are relatively bright; I have several others, so indeed yes they may have been cleaned 20th century. Possibly by the German...
My acquisitions: (de-allergy warning: I removed the fruit and replaced with a coin I received in January 2020, #10) 1. Kölner Münz-kabinett 32 (4...
As a seller, I've asked for my coins to be pulled from auctions because of - bad images - auction placement up didn't match what I was offered...
The surface and strike out of 5 ratings by NGC are the best thing ever, and supersede the grade of wear. Recently bought an NGC graded VF,5,5 (ie...
Roman quinarius struck in Corcyra with Corcyra mintmark at left under Dioscuri. At right the letters AG may be the mint magistrate. One of the...
Party crashing this Carausius discussion because I just added a coin previously owned by the Carausius expert and author of RIC V, Percy Webb,...
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Budaeus. His first book on classical numismatics was published 1514. I have an original 16th century copy. He didn't deal with coin types but...
I have good provenances for these types, one including an 1892 photo provenance Monnaies et Médailles Basel Auctiones 17 (7 Jun.1988) lot 506...
It's not tooled. Flat strike and cleaning scratches. Look at the details. The lettering original forms complete with the dots are intract. So not...
My younger Cato. Possibly the best centred example in the universe [ATTACH] And my social war type. I like the rather crude portrait style. [ATTACH]
Cut off for me is the Euphronios Krater scandal that erupted around 2002 and was very widely publicised. From that date, it became clear to...
Yes. Don't read the Paul Barford blog. Full of lies and twisted information, abusive, rude, designed to provoke anger etc etc. He's a massive...
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Coin is perfect. I couldn't find an old provenance and its not especially rare so there's a good chance I will eventually find a decent example...
Marvellous. Did not expect to see another example of this type on this thread
UBS 45 (15 Sep.1998) lot 697 (est. CHF 800) ex Schulman 243 (June 1966) lot 1501 R.J. Graham coll. ex Naville Ars Classica 17 (3 Oct.1934) lot...
I wouldn't collect an eid mar with weak provenance. There's well over 100 known. I can wait or do without. I would collect an unimportant but...
Provenance and collector history. That's my main collecting focus for common coins. If I can't get a kickass provenance then I rather wait. For...
I'm absolutely delighted when collectors get bargains from me. I'm a bit less delighted when dealers cherry pick bargains from me and then flip...
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