Didn’t see these but I highly recommend both. The Kenneth hall lecture course is especially good. I was reminded of scribes and scholars after...
How can you prove the date of a coin that DOES have a date? Archeological context is important, but many Roman coins are dated, just not with the...
Has anyone here actually learned an advanced discipline on their own and then interacted with professionally trained people in that discipline?...
On the road
Another very irritating auction policy is very short time to settle invoices. I just tried timeline auctions for the first time, but did not...
S=VI?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Julius-Caesar-as-a-Child-Copper-Token-Roman-Empire-90-BC/133061755911?hash=item1efb194407:g:V9MAAOSwBQhc5vWT [ATTACH]
Nice piece! I have no intention to be harsh.
It’s popular because it’s exceeding common. Next to Claudius RIC 84, it may be the most common Roman quadrans available. Funny aside, though,...
Strange and cool coin! Why is pietas associated with mercury? A general reference to respecting the divine? Also, why KA? Isn’t that a Greek...
Completely agree. I know quadrantes and semisses well and this is not one. The response from the auction house is erudite, diplomatic, and...
The auction house is unconvinced. The core of their argument is that the style and fabric are too good for an unofficial issue and the age old...
Why is this recent auction listing called a semis? Semisses were no longer made in Roman imperial coinage by the reign of Commodus. Further, the...
One of my Best Buys was from him. I offered 150 (a low to fair price) on a Antonines pius very rare quadrants with a modus reverse which had...
I messaged the auction house. No response, but it looks like the listing was promptly withdrawn. Nice to see the system work the way it should!
These have apparently been around a while... https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1040769
This looks very off. Is this a known fake type?...
A recent purchase related to the half quadrans. A Trajan shewolf quadrans struck on a half quadrans flan, 10.9 mm, .80 g, 12 h. [ATTACH]
An older purchase, and an interesting example from the Flavian period- auction house photo. Not in ric but maybe in the addendum? [ATTACH]...
That certainly is what should have happened to it but I wonder if it’s still there and if anyone could actually locate it...
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