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The ancient Romans invented the concept of flipping a coin to determine the outcome of a choice by random chance - or by "the will of the gods", as they'd have seen it. The most common coin… (View Post)

While it might seem that there could be some kind of ethical breach - along the lines of insider trading - I don't really see any actual ethical breaches happening here. The auction house is complete… (View Post)

It does in part depend on the storage environment. The thing that causes PVC damage is solvent migration of the phthalate plasticizers out of the PVC onto the coins, and the main thing that accelerat… (View Post)

There are plenty of surviving records mentioning money; very very few of them talk about what we consider as "denominations", and none of them mention this specific denomination. Most survi… (View Post)

Yep, this wold be in the "tourist fake" class. Fairly crudely made and wrong metal (tetradrachms of Nero are supposed to be silver). Here's a genuine example: https://www.vcoins.com/en/stor… (View Post)