MODS: Please remove the wildwinds link in the top posting of this thread. It is causing errors because of the non-existent "/bigpic.cgi" addition....
PS There has been one on wildwinds since 2017. as RecGen 333b
I only just noticed this thread and sorry that the thread is almost exactly 4 years old ! Firstly, the N.g. in Mionnet's listing refers to...
I am only 3 years late with this... The difference between Sear 2012 and 2013 is that 2013 has the KE ROHQCI around the bust of Christ. I am...
Seth - Re the first post in this thread: your Gratian is not RIC 45a but RIC 46a. All varieties of RIC 45 (a,b,c etc) have Roma's foot on a prow...
These appear to be still doing the rounds. I just received an email from someone in Holland who bought one, presuming it was genuine. The odd...
CoinArchivesPro list a number of very light Julia Mamaea denarii - these are some examples of RIC 332 types: (Most were under 3.2 g, the heaviest...
In his supplement to the "Dated Coins of Antiquity", Edward Cohen writes (he's talking about the Tyre Shekels here, but the explanation of the...
In another work, I can't remember who it was written by, but it was someone of great repute, I read that these were not hybrids or mules, but...
Be very very wary of buying ancient coins or "old French" coins from China. Several years ago a Chinese company sent me an email asking whether I...
It isn't from Palmyra. By pure coincidence I was looking at dozens of images in various books and pdfs of coins of Palmyra all day yesterday. As...
I have a feeling that some of Künker's customers are not coin collectors per se, but who buy coins as investments. If they are not experienced,...
www.archive.org Free access and official. All the Imhoof books and articles, most of the BMC Greece volumes, three or four of the BMCRE (Roman...
Hi everyone. As cmezner has written, the old Isegrim is not working any more and so, because not everyone was happy with the new style on gcam,...
The chemical formula for the Nat. Hexa is NaPO3. If you have a real chemist shop near you, you could ask them to make you a small batch to test....
You may be able to seal it using a Dremel with a conical or cylindrical felt attachment with a tiny smear of Renwax. That can often sort of burns...
Ah, but metal detectorist are very wary of letting people know where they find their coins, they want to keep the information = location to...
Apart from the reason given by benhur767, there is also the point that most of the big coin dealers simply do not have the time to reply to the...
This is Price 1527. There is an example on wildwinds. http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/macedonia/kings/alexander_III/i.html
This is Imhoof KM 2 ("Kleinasiatische Münzen") with the "full" bull (not just the forepart) and a crescent above. I will add this to wildwinds....
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