You have to be careful. The ancients looked at perspective very different than we do. It was perfectly reasonable to compose scenes with...
More likely over plated with zinc. Very easy to do.
I would assume it is zinc plated. This is quite an easy thing to do- my friends and I used to do this for school demonstrations. After plating,...
I would expect there are coins around. As recently as the 1980s, scholars studying at Pompeii could bring home trinkets from the digs.
This seems unlikely. Coins were routinely melted and restruck, so you would have to rely on sentimentality. A dekadrachm has a lot of value and...
The phrase 'above ground' misses the point. The real distinction is whether coins have at some point been 'lost'. As far as I am aware, every...
This has been discussed at FORVM. As I recall, there are no examples of coins that did not come from the ground. Silver and gold have until...
Is it certain that this is Janus? I recall seeing that this may be a janiform representation of Jupiter which fits with the thunderbolt. This...
I wonder if there is a tie in with the Carmentalia, a Roman festival dedicated to childbirth and celebrated in January?
One of the worst fakes I have seen. Looks like a bad rendition of a nerva quadrans was crudely etched into a slug....
Unethical. As a collector, this sort of find is fine and happens- dealers make mistakes and we cherrypick. But when you immediately flip it, you...
Great to see Steve looks good. I looked much worse after months of chemo with sunken eyes and pale skin. It took more than a year to feel right...
My only hesitation of calling them cysta mystica is that victory appears to be standing on a pedastool rather than a basket. As shown on Jays...
This is actually what got me thinking about Nemesis lately, especially the beautiful denarius Orfew shows.
While snakes are normally associated during the imperial period with Salus, they are occasionally featured with victory (see links). The first...
Thanks, Tif!
Hi Valentinian, When I first started collecting imperil quadrans 15 years ago, I really enjoyed finding your reference site. I now have quite a...
I am appalled that a spintria wound be deleted. This is a democracy! If this sort of hard handed misguided censorship continues, I will walk...
You know, that dance wasn’t as safe as they said it was.
If this were an early large cent, everyone would grade it AG.
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