Due to the heavy demands of grad school, I haven't posted here in a while, but I wanted to stop in and say how sorry I was to hear this news. I...
@Nefarius Purpus, I think the argument of the name being an attested Latin name is very strong. However, I do wish you could present some kind of...
I can see possible stylistic similarities with some of these, but it’s also very interesting to note that, so far as I can tell, the inscriptions...
I didn't see any contemporary 3rd century cast forgeries, but I did find some earlier ones, and they are pretty prolific in the 4th century. So it...
And that seems to be one of the strongest arguments for the existence of this figure. It’s very difficult to explain otherwise. And yet… why in...
I'm going to have to dig deeper into this later, but it's very interesting. My initial feelings are conflicted: the technical analysis seems at...
[ATTACH] Alexandria – Tiberius? 22mm, 9.25g Recently I've been cleaning a group of heavily corroded Alexandrian coins that I got as a lot....
I think that "I know it when I see it" is as good an answer as anyone can give. Judgements of style are subjective, there's no way around it....
My understanding is that quite a few of the Mir Zakah coins are still mouldering in Swiss bank vaults, but certainly some of them are out there...
Who writes these rules? As @THCoins points out, Janapadas were states, not coins. :banghead: Per Wikipedia (I know, not the best source, but...
Congratulations Nicholas! I am curious to have a look once it's out. I haven't heard much about these proposed links between coinage and philosophy.
This may be an obvious or ignorant question, but since I'm not overly familiar with the series I'll ask it: is that some variant of the Om symbol...
I am always fascinated to see your new discoveries with this series. It's great to see them getting such attention, and I'm sure that it must be...
I applied for a position with Leu a couple years ago and was one of the finalists for it. I will say that although the descriptions are written...
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