As much as I hate to say it, the joke is on the 'investment' type collector. They pay several times the book value for these slabbed pieces of metal, then find...
Since I am not able to afford ancients in slabs... I am not familiar with the 'feel' of such, but isn't there some type of reference number on the slab...
Hi Everyone, I'm trying to find what this coin looks like from a photo, but on the website this has no image. Can someone see if there is a photo of this...
it only took three years but i'm finally sold out of erics. the last one is up on ebay but i'll spare the list the ugly long url. many thanks to this list in...
Does it include a photo of the coin? At the cost of slabbing... it should if it doesn't... I would think that the mere fact that the forger would have to...
Not coins. But I did buy some fibulae from them way back, must have been just after they were registered. I seen to recall they were the incarnation, not...
I bought a copy of ERIC when it was first published and look forward to the next edition. Keep up the good work. - Al _____ From: Moneta-L@yahoogroups.com...
My only experience with him was also my first purchase on eBay. I bought 100 "medium" quality bronze roman coins from him in early 2004. Three months after...
Hi Everyone, I got the info last night for this coin that I've been having a problem locating, but with the help of Richard Plant (Author to many books),...
Dear Bob/List The link in Springerlink refers to the Parabita hoard, where two scholars found a lead mule that is coated first with copper and then with...
Greetings Roman coin collectors and German readers The distribution of Roman coins in Germany is mapped and categorized by the FMRD volume series, published I...
Schatzfund = hoard, large or small. Kollektivfund: apparently coins found together, but not seeming to constitute a hoard, nor clearly being finds from a...
Could you give us a more specific reference here? Ross Glanfield ... the Journal of Applied Electrochemistry of the Netherlands dealing with electroless silver...
Hi Raymond, "Kollektiv" would be the equivalent of the English "multiple find" -- coins found in close proximity, but not clearly a hoard. "Siedlungs", I...
I would like to thank Curtis Clay and John Hooker for their quick and informative responses to my question. There is no doubt that Moneta-L is a discussion...
Debauchery goes back to OFr desbaucher, to seduce, originally to separate branches (Frankish *balko, as in English balk [of lumber or timber]) from trunk of...
Dear list members, Here is our news for this month. ... This month we added a number of new interesting coins to our inventory. They are mostly rare coins and...
I have this coin with MAXIMINUS PF AVG on the obverse (fairly common I suppose by the internet searches I have made, but none I have found have "MARTI...
Jim - I don't have access to the complete Oxford, but at least one other dictionary (the <http://dictionary.reference.com/help/etymon.html> Online Etymology...
... It should be a Follis of Maximinus II. The figure on the reverse is Mars. It will be either from the mint of Ticinum (reference RIC VI 124b) or Aquileia ...
hi all, interested in this coin SG1439.., the books say it is from pella, but it seems to be from the entire macedonian kingdom, not just any particular city ...
Hello JIm, Your coin was minted at Thessalonika rather than Pella, the mint mark theta behind the bust indicates this, Pella has the mintmark B (normal or...
Dear List, in the link below: http://tinyurl.com/4zhkmf you can find a Salonina antonianus (RIC V/I 32) with two characteristics about which I wish to question...
Kim, check out Sear GIC Vol II number 4754. This is a much better picture than the two examples shown in SNG Cop. Vol VI nos. 670 and 670. The other ...
I was indulging myself in some numisporn yesterday evening, browsing through books that are entirely indulgent, filled with lovely picture of smashing coins,...
I wanted to address an open message to Bill Puetz of VCoins on the subject of online collections. I'd personally find it useful to be able to upload my...
The crescent under Salonina's bust is a denomination marker -- it signifies the coin is an antoninianus or double denarius. A smaller coin without the crescent...
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