Back in the day, Walker’s books on “The Metrology of the Roman Silver Coinage” (1976, 3 vols) was the authoritative word.
My experience has been that the "best of the best" have done spectacularly. Better and more rare, middle of the road quality has held value, some...
I think it was the Roman emperor Maximinus, the 8-foot tall Thracian in the third-century, who got a bad rep for robbing temples of precious metal...
My first guess would be Howgego 788, a denominational countermark. However, most of those were on coins only as late as Gordian III, and most on...
Hard to know exactly. I'm guessing that before, perhaps a population of half a dozen. After, perhaps 2 dozen. With only, perhaps 10 people in...
A little different, there was a very rare coin I couldn't afford, until that is a hoard was found. An ancient from a Greek colony in Cilicia....
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