John Conduitt ✭✭✭✭

That would be a natural variation. The dozen in my drawer range from 6.950g to 7.172g. The weight doesn't mean anything with a modern coin. There's no way anyone would fake a 2 pence coin anyway, sin… (View Post)

Yes it means what you want it to mean, and what's convenient for your collection. Auctions and dealers don't often use such general groupings - they have sections for Roman Republic, Roman Imperial, … (View Post)

Any copper at all can corrode. If there's less, there's less chance of the chain reaction continuing, and whatever the copper is alloyed with can make it less likely to react, but it can. Obviously, … (View Post)

This happens a lot with coins. You can usually tell the cataloguer knows which way is up, but the photographer doesn't. (View Post)

I think you were right the first time. If you read articles from the Victorian era and now, it's apparent almost all the early and mid-medieval moneyers are known directly from coins. Sometimes a new… (View Post)