dougsmit: Very nice coins, Thanks for posting examples of the different Unknown Eastern Mint reverses. You have some beautiful coins there. Do you...
Ah yes, I prefer the term 'Unknown Eastern Mint' personally....but that's just me. Of the three reverses I think the 'Pax Fundata cum Persis' is...
That's a beautiful Republican piece you have there wstalcup, very nice. A great start to one of the most interesting areas of coin collecting.
Yes, great looking coin, fantastic portrait... and fine photography skills.... here's mine.... however I did not take the photos myself....
Well, the portrait I have seen of George III on the crowns and half crowns dated after 1817 definitely looks different to me.....less appealing(in...
Good save indeed. I really like the reverse on this series.
Thanks alot! I love my British coins. jello: great looking coin....a halfcrown you say?
Unless of course you consider old Spanish milled coins, and early American coins as ancient.......
Great coins.... I notice you have the South Sea Company shilling.... very nice, I have the one with plumes and roses on the reverse where the...
Once again Cucumbor, you have managed to make me drool over your ancients... I'm currently working on a set of the Philip I and II 'Saeculares'...
Indeed. That sure is a beautiful sestertius. Very boyish portrait. Great strike, nice looking flan. -The only bronze coins I have from the...
The first one, the shilling of William the Fourth is actually dated 1836. William IV died in 1838, the year Queen Victoria became Queen. And I...
Well... they do complement one another. Book learnin' and coin collecting that is.
Oh of course.... there is history to be learned in all coins I think. I surely learned alot more about the United States from coin collecting than...
Well it's surely great for learning about history and such. A retired professor of the classics that I used to work for had a large binder, filled...
Great article....Very interesting, something I knew nothing about. Thank you.
Same here... Ancient coins can be alot of fun. Yet they can consume some, an addiction which knows no bounds....
I'm sure someone knows. Do you know the weight of the coin?
I like the eagle on the reverse. Interesting coins.
Wow Cucumbor, those are very beautiful Tetradrachmai! The Severan period is where I have focused most of my effort when it comes to ancients....
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