John Conduitt ✭✭✭✭

TPGs have a lot to answer for. Damage is fine. It should make a coin proportionately cheaper, of course. But it's not the binary nonsense the TPGs instill in moderns collectors. Yes, I will usually g… (View Post)

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They say on them what they are: D N VALENTINIANVS IVN P F AVG (Dominus Noster Valentinianus Junior, Pius Felix Augustus; Our Lord Valentinian II, pious successful emperor) REPARATIO REIPVB (Restorati… (View Post)

Licinius and Jupiter, Thessalonica http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.7.thes.5?lang=en (View Post)

It has sanitised the coins. Going on about the cost of the collection doesn’t make it interesting - quite the opposite. It shows slabs are not the best medium for displaying coins. I imagine the poin… (View Post)