Nice coins, especially the OP coin! I was lucky to secure this coin through MA Shops a year or two ago. [ATTACH]
Well, as Joseph Campbell said, "Follow your bliss". If your bliss is for attractive, high quality coins, so be it. They often fetch the higher...
"I seem to see Athens, it's terribly chic. Atop the Acrop'lis, it's terribly Greek. There's Venus, Adonis, 'n us. Cheek to cheek. Oh how chic! To...
Nice drachm and obol! Your drachm has very nice detail for this very scarce type. The obol has a very nice reverse. That's also a nice group of...
I normally do not collect ancient coins of Southeast Asia, but this coin has a lot of appeal, so I took the bait: Pyu States, Sriksetra (Funan...
Julia Mamaea was the force behind the throne, to be sure, much the way Livia was during the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius.
I thought that I will add cobs as I photograph them to this thread, rather than create a thread for each coin, which, while the coin might deserve...
I think that is a very appealing coin. I have trouble, honestly, detecting smoothing unless it is really obvious. That fact is that the vast...
That's a very nice example, at a great price! I find the sestertii of Severus Alexander quite appealing. They are very available, much like...
Beautiful coin! I guess it is not terribly surprising that doubling like this occurs in these early milled coins. Quality control, particularly...
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This coin might be from the Cuzco Hoard, but I have no documentation. It is a scarcer date, the first date with the proper bust of Charles IV at...
Really nice coins posted! Thanks Is is my other John III Ducas, AE tetarteron, Magnesia Mint. This coin was part of the same group lot as the...
That's a good, solid weight for these coins.
That's an attractive cob, with two complete dates and lots of other data. What's the weight?
Very impressive! I wonder what the vending machines were like back then..... The only proto money that I have is a two shekel AR ingot...
Going backwards in time, here is a Potosi cob, Philip II, Assayer B. It is one of the first cobs I bought back in 1981. It came from Hal...
Thanks. Yes, you have the correct information on your Potosi 1 real cob. It's a nice coin, with clear detail of the important information. I...
Diana Lucifera, the bringer of light. This coin, by the way, was purchased after a very informative CT thread by Roman Collector on a rare dative...
Here's a coin that I have owned for a while, and photographed today. This is a sestertius of Commodus, and a somewhat unusual one at that. Here...
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