Thanks for posting this picture. Take a look at the yellow-circled areas on the obverse and reverse as I've illustrated below: [ATTACH] Since...
I was under the impression that the picture below, posted by Herodotus, is the original listing from EBay and has not been filtered by you to...
I think it's likely that the reverse of your coin has been somewhat re-engraved to more sharply define the leading edge of Mars. Compare your...
[ATTACH] I am indebted to you for posting this! This is exactly how I would have envisioned a circulated, worn, non-smoothed, and non-tooled...
Do I detect a couple of Sphinx reverses? Row 7, column 7 and row 8, column 6? Just FYI, creating virtual trays can be a relaxing, even peaceful...
Any chance you'll create and post virtual trays of your (Roman) Republicans, illustrating the range of reverses that drew you to these coins?...
Interesting discussion about this coin in particular -- for those of you like me who don't like to click to another image, here it is: [ATTACH]...
Let me clarify my initial post: My judgment "... the OP coin is unlikely to be genuine." was based solely on statistics, not on my evaluation of...
For me the key to the OP coin is the dot on the obverse between the M and O: [ATTACH] I researched CNG's entire archive of Otho denarii and...
Just FYI, almost any coin sold in a well-known auction can be researched and found on ACSEARCH. It's free, although it costs extra to get the...
Let's start by defining "authenticity" in the context of ancient coins. I would propose the following criteria for an ancient coin to be judged...
[ATTACH] Yes, this is tongue-in-cheek...
My take on this podcast -- especially Berk's off-the-cuff comments about collectors -- is that he's a bit undefined about exactly what he means by...
I agree with the implication in the second quote that all collectors, either consciously or subconsciously, take a coin's "eye appeal" into their...
Just keep in mind the following perspective: $5 in 1935 would be worth a little over $1000 today, when adjusted for inflation, so the...
This is a very attractive coin -- you have quite an eye for these types!
I had read somewhere that there were 35 recorded specimens; the 34 that I've found myself all have pictures associated with them. It will be...
Thanks for the additional information. I've added it to my spreadsheet tracking this coin and now have 34 examples of this type.
Using online resources I've attempted to catalog Julius Caesar/Octavian aurei and have found 32 examples in ACSEARCH and other resources. Of the...
The ambiguity with this definition lies in the phrase "...what a coin type usually sells for..." What is "usually?" Who is selling the coin --...
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