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The very broad general answer to your question is "Yes, slabbing does add value". People wouldn't be all crazy about slabbing if this were not true. How much? This depends on a broad r… (View Post)

Yes, at lest in terms of "environmental damage" and "cleaned". Mainly because my collecting includes ancients, and every single ancient coin on the market today has been cleaned a… (View Post)

The globe predates Christian imagery, as it can be seen - without the cross on top - on numerous Roman coins from the pre-Christian period. The novelty the Christians added was the cross perched on t… (View Post)

They would have "stopped circulating" once inflation made them worth more in metal value than face value - which would have been some time in the mid-200s AD, as the value of the denarius c… (View Post)

Most of them, and all three of the ones posted just above, are of the type known as "anonymous bronzes". These were struck in the period AD 969-1059, and as the name suggests they do not be… (View Post)