Thank you! I had a hard time putting them in order. I somehow hit upon this ordering and stuck with it :)
Thank you very much! I did sneak in an Antoninus Pius, but he's an outlier and the only one I own.
Thank you. It wasn't too difficult for me, but I guess the difficulty depends on how comfortable someone is using Photoshop. The key for me was...
Clio is the bidder who outbids everyone? LOL.
Here are 2017's top ten presented together in a 'tray', correctly sized relative to each other. Click the image to enlarge: [ATTACH]
Happy New Year! My top ten consists of just a fraction of the coins I acquired during 2017, many of which could have been included in the list...
Thank you! This is something I'm interested in reading. If you can send me the copy after the break I'd appreciate it very much. Thanks for...
I love these Republican era Janus coins. He was much more common then!
A coin from my collection to honor the start of the New Year: [ATTACH] Geta (as Augustus). AR denarius, Rome mint, struck 211 CE; 3.15g. BMCRE...
Photo 1 has the widest tonal range and best captures the essence of the actual physical object. It reveals the three-dimensional quality of the...
Here's my photo of the OICTOR coin. The Roma photo has a red cast to it, which isn't accurate. [ATTACH]
My favorites are the Marc Antony legionaries and the face on the bull-man.
That Gordian is very attractive! As you say, I am sure that the photo only hints at the special quality it has. I don't mind the doubling on the...
All great coins. Such an exceptional portrait of Postumus!
All great coins. I especially love the Athena/owl coin!
The Syrian version of Sol, El-Gabal: [ATTACH] Elagabalus. AR denarius, Eastern mint, struck 218–9 CE. 3.24g, 12h. BMCRE 287, RIC 196, RSC 269...
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and insights about this specialized area. And thanks to Doug as well! Posts on CoinTalk (and FORVM?)...
I am the owner of the OICTOR coin to which maridvnvm is referring. As he mentioned, Roma didn't notice the misspelling of the reverse legend and...
I doesn't "have" to be better. Often it is better, especially for older publications. Remember that printing and imaging technology are vastly...
A plate is a page in a printed book for which separate plates are burned for printing photographic images on higher quality paper than the text...
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