Well, this is probably not worth its own thread, but I just got a lot of 6 old bronzes that I sought out because of 2 really nifty Byzantine...
I was poking around Wikipedia articles relating to Trajan Decius and found a footnote to the Battle of Abritus that was just amazing...
So after an evening of drinking beer and generally relaxing on a Friday night, I came home, checked eBay and found a "Buy it Now" deal that seemed...
I am trying to catch up on attributing some recent purchases and am stumped by this denarius of Commodus. Using Wildwinds, etc., I can come...
I recently picked up a dupondius (I think - it weighs 10.1 grams) of Faustina II from a local dealer and I was just getting around to attributing...
Just got my first Faustina II "SAECVLI FELICIT" two-babies-on-a-throne denarius. The baby on the right is headless on my example. A miniscule...
I've really been trying, surfing the Web looking at all those long cross pennies, the different legends, the crowns, the variations in the king's...
I really appreciate Wildwinds and use the site all the time to help with my attributions. But sometimes I get confused. I recently purchased a...
I really like poorly-photographed and poorly-described eBay lots. You just never know what you're going to get, exactly. Recently I got seven...
Although I just visited Pompeii and tried beforehand to research what to look for, I only just tonight chanced upon a reference to the Oplontis...
Do you ever go into a coin shop and come away with the unexpected? While shopping in the real (rather than the virtual) world, I sometimes wind...
I recently picked up an Antoninianus of Philip I (the Arab) or his son Philip II. This was somewhat confusingly listed on eBay with a poor photo,...
One of my favorite ancients is the denarius of L. Censorinus with Apollo on the obverse and the satyr Marsyas on the reverse. Marsyas challenged...
A while back on eBay I picked up a Roman Republic denarius of L. Antestius Gragulus. The seller thought it was a fake and so had it priced at...
So I was looking over some of the less attractive areas of my collection and came across this As (I think - it weighs 9 grams - is this a...
I consider it being akin to a gambling addiction, but one of my favorite way to purchase ancients is to cruise eBay looking for poorly described...
A couple years ago I bought one of those Postal Commemoration Society ancient coin packages - "Ancient Silver Coinage" consisting of a Roman...
I recently obtained a cruddy denarius of Julia Mamaea with some damage that I thought might be interesting. It is has a lot of (very...
Recently got this Constantine II bronze (I think) - it was part of a lot, and in hand it was much better looking than I thought it would be. Some...
I've been watching this for about a month at a local dealer's shop and finally decided to get it this week. My dealer had it described as a AR...
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