I always enjoy the "why we collect what we collect" posts on CT, for they help clarify my rather incoherent thoughts on the subject. And so...
I scoured Coin Talk for an Aphrodite/Venus of this type and found nothing, so I decided to start a new thread, despite the cruddiness of the coin...
Just got this from my local dealer - $2 in his junk bin. It appears to be Egyptian, but I cannot figure it out. It is very thin for a Ptolemaic...
Hope that title doesn't count as "click bait." Apologies in advance! :oops: My local library discards stuff all the time, including patron...
I got this by accident in an eBay lot and had a hard time attributing it. I thought it was Constans II or something from Heraclius. Apparently...
I just got this little copper medieval coin in a lot and I am having no luck attributing it. The cross is pretty easy to see, but I cannot tell...
I am pretty geeked out over this one, ugly as it may be. This is an AE from Cilicia issued by Tarkondimotos, a king with Roman sympathies who...
I recently got this small AE provincial. I think it is Caracalla, from Philipopolis - "ΦIΛIΠΠ..." is just barely visible on the reverse. It is...
This coin was part of a big lot of miscellaneous ancients I bought last December. It was in my box of unidentified/unidentifiable stuff that I...
So what do you think of this 31mm beauty? [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Note those surfaces: [ATTACH] Before you hit that "thumbs down" button, I already...
Yesterday I stopped by my local dealer and poked through his junk boxes. Found a couple of ancients I thought I'd share. I passed on a couple of...
I just got a new sestertius from eBay and while attributing it, I came across what I think might be my first die match...or not. And so, I try...
From the Art Institute of Chicago, close but no cigar:...
Got an unidentified lot of four ancients from eBay yesterday, which I bid on because of the decanummium that didn't look too bad. I couldn't ID...
I've been working up attribution for a Domitian As I just obtained (time has been unkind to it). It appears to be a fairly common coin, but as I...
I am conditionally excited about this, in a too-good-to-be-true way. Sometimes I troll through eBay's "Antiquities" section looking for coins -...
I know this has been done before, but I just got these two Faustina I AEs and I was struck by how different they were, doing a better job than...
Ran across this "opportunity" and wondering if I should go for it. The problem is, I cannot figure out what it is. It's pretty rough, but I find...
For about two years now I've been collecting ancient countermarks, and I have found it to be a rewarding, occasionally frustrating experience....
The past month or so, eBay has had a lot of cheap, cruddy imperial denarii coming up for auction - just my kind of stuff. So I've been scooping...
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