I would like to buy a slabbed coin. I still haven’t had an opportunity to release one.
Thank you! I’ve been looking for one of those Telesphoros reverses for a while. Really great type.
[ATTACH]I'm suffering from a winter cold. Fortunately I just got this to comfort me. Not only Asclepius, god of medicine, but also his little...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] I have one of that type which I hope is OK?
Just won this with a lowball bid because I like the reverse. Shame about the snotty-nose obverse.[ATTACH] Trajan Æ Quadrans. Rome, circa AD...
It’s a fabulous museum. I love the building as well as the collection. Just the right scale, too.
That's exactly my worry!
Thank you. It did occur to me, unworthily, that Saturnalia is nearly upon us.
Thank you - v helpful. I was also thinking of the spade in your Dido Carthage coin.
[ATTACH] So far all of my budget has gone on coins, plus a few books and some grotesquely expensive but very good looking Abafil cases. What else...
[ATTACH] I’ve got a bunch of Septimius Severus, including one of my very first purchases. I’ve added this one because it’s in such nice...
[ATTACH] How about Hercules slaying the Nemean Bunny Rabbit? Caracalla, Blaundos Lydia, AE32.
[ATTACH] I just bought this imitative Julia Soaemias. There are only three official reverse types, so it’s nice to be able to add a fourth. A...
A lot of my collection has been inspired by CT threads. Here's one I've wanted for a very long time, and just picked up at auction today. Like a...
GREAT selection. I love the crazy diagonal leg, as if the celator was trying too hard to replicate the contraposto.
These are fantastic. Inspiring me to form my own sub-collection...
I've bought from Vosper, Silbury and Wessex and recommend them all. All attend the London coin fairs, if you're able to get to London for them. I...
I approve of this. Keeps people who aren’t really interested out of my way at museums.
Love that coin! They had to adapt the marble copies, because marble is more brittle than bronze. A lot of Roman sculpture was copying Greek...
This Antoninus Pius Ae19 of Nicopolis shows a famous Greek statue by Praxiteles of Apollo Sauroktonos (the lizard slayer). Slaying lizards doesn't...
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