I love quirky coins. I also love Roman Egypt. That meant that I had to have this unique specimen, even if I'm not sure what to make of it. It's a...
I made a post a while back discussing some of the Isis iconography on Alexandrian coins. I had just read the Wall book, which was the source for a...
When it comes to late Roman imitations, I find it quite difficult to draw the line between official and 'barbarous' with some of them! Just...
Over the past couple years, I've increasingly focused on collecting coins with Egyptian iconography. As such, I envy some of the beautiful coins...
Leu is very generous in sending out catalogues. I've bought a handful of coins from them for never more than $200, and bid on many I didn't win,...
Just off the surface, I would lean towards Venus because of the hairstyle and necklace. None of the Republican denarii definitively depicting...
Some very high prices, some of which make sense, and some of which do not. I still managed to come away with what I think was a good bargain: I...
I would just leave it as it is. I've come to enjoy the different toning of my silver coins, and I enjoy watching them change over time in my...
Fantastic work and very much the right approach to take! Numismatics is such a rewarding hobby because it is a rich field that offers all of us...
@TypeCoin971793, out of curiosity, how does one go about having XRF analysis performed on a coin? I know that there are portable units, but I'm...
As a student of American and ancient history, consider me interested! Thanks for being willing to do this. We’re privileged to have so many kind...
Fantastic work, and thanks for sharing! Maybe we need to create a crowd-sourced project where we help museums ID and catalogue their unpublished...
I didn't dig too deep, but I went a little down the rabbit hole and found that one of the earliest studies on inscribed bullets was an 1864 paper...
Perhaps my eyes betray me (you'll be in a better position to tell once you have it in hand), but could the last letter be an alpha (A) instead of...
Delays galore these days. I have items from Japan and India which have been in limbo since mid-March due to near total shut downs there! Domestic...
[ATTACH] 7.66g, 27mm This came in a mostly unremarkable lot of Byzantine coins, but I immediately recognized it as something special. At first...
Perhaps it's just me, but it's rather striking how similar the eagle on @Limes' coin is to the cruder example of Cerberus on these coins. The beak...
@Bing, I suspect it is still silverish, but it is either more debased than the surface, or simply less cleaned than the exterior surface and thus...
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