This issue came with an impressive variety of different obverse control symbols -- it appears there are several hundred obverse control symbols...
That's great information, thank you for sharing. I was just reading an article that recommended exactly this procedure and I thought to myself,...
Well done! I wouldn't have expected it to turn out so well.
Ah, yes, I recognize that collection now that I see your forum gallery! (Good idea to link to your profile here, I will have to remember to do the...
This is a great topic and a great post! Late Byzantine is far from being my main focus, but the history of numismatic knowledge is my favorite...
It’s hard for anyone to know exactly what’s going on, but honestly, what you’ve said does not make the seller sound scammy to me. They responded &...
If it's only been 10 days or so, there's still plenty of time for it to show up. Your opportunity to file some kind of dispute won't expire in...
Wow, it's especially great that Côte listed the collection number, since the coin was not in the Pozzi sale (Naville Ars Classica I, 4 April...
I'll preface this by saying I am really bad with Islamic coins, so I'm just giving my beginner experience until someone knowledgeable makes this...
AND it's an Adventus type, very cool coin! (Here's the ACSearch record of its Heritage appearance last year.) If we're counting the later AE ones...
Beautiful! This raises the very interesting topic of "Riverine" surface (occasionally called "Tiber patina," but I can't believe that many are...
Very nice! These Constantine IV's are interesting as the last Byzantine bronzes (and Solidi) to really attempt individualized, artistic...
Also, speaking of NFA coins c. 1990, here's a little secret I'll share, now that I've discovered it. David Sear pulled a considerable portion of...
Hard to choose just one Chi-Rho coin, since I collect Roman "captives & barbarians coins" and many of them show Chi-Rho standards (or crosses or...
In that case I would really have no concerns about fakery at all. As a general rule, though, being an affordable coin really doesn't offer much...
"Coins in movies" is an interesting topic I hadn't thought much about before... But I collect ancient coins with interesting "object biographies"...
If you're asking about authenticity, the coin itself looks probably ancient to me. (Always hard to know from photos & coin description, since good...
Not the person you asked, but... Found it! Oddly, with a different lot number, so it may have gone unsold & appeared in a 2nd sale. NFA Auction 28...
Yes that's definitely the name of the magistrate. I promise you, it's a coin of Nero and the name "Tiberius Claudius Kalligenes" is for the local...
I really like these bilingual coins, and the Ghaznivads are some of the coolest of all. This is a great example, I've actually been watching out...
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