Just got a new one in the mail to add to my small ancient countermark collection. Usually I have more trouble attributing the countermark, but...
Well, this turned out better than I thought - a couple of rough sestertii in the mail Friday. They are ugly, but better than I'd hoped, and just...
I just got a lot of two Roman tetradrachms while scrounging on eBay. One of them I figured out fairly easily, but this one I am not so sure of:...
I was hoping to garner some opinions on the legitimacy of the Juila Maesa AE I recently got. My Severan AE collection is very small, so I don't...
I just got 2 Roman Provincials, and I am not exactly sure where to start. I thought they might be Arabia Bostra, at first, but what I can make...
Back in September 2017 I needed help with a Faustina II as I picked up at my local dealer for ten bucks. Roman Collector helped me out with...
So, back in 1987, one of my first ancient coin purchases was this Alexander drachm: [ATTACH] Macedonia Kingdom Drachm Antigonus I Monophthalmus...
I just got this denarius of Julia Domna and I am having a tough time attributing it. Given its overall appearance, I am suspecting a barbaric...
I've been starting in on Indian coins, but I have no idea what I am doing. Just got this silver rupee (I think it is a rupee) - it is 18 mm in...
Niall Ferguson is, according to the jacket copy, "one of Britain's most renowned historians." So I started reading his book The Ascent of Money...
I recently got this in a lot - I've spent some time cruising Arabic dirhems and found a few that seem close, but no exact matches. As close as I...
Happy New Year, everybody. Yesterday the mailman closed out the year for me with a batch of 17 oddball ancients that I had a lot of fun figuring...
Just before Christmas I got a big lot of (mostly) ancient coins. As I waded in to attribute them (those that were attributable), I came across...
In my quest for cheap ancient countermarks, I recently landed a pitted follis of Maurice Tiberius with what looked like a countermark - the seller...
I found a very cruddy sestertius of Antoninus Pius on eBay for $19.99. I don't mind low-grade sestertii, but this one was too awful even for me....
Taking another eBay gamble, I won five coins for $10.00. Described as "Lot of Five Roman Coins" and somewhat darkly photographed, it was a...
This was a lot of fun for me. A batch of harshly over-cleaned Roman Provincials (and some others) from eBay, 14 coins for $19.99 ($1.43 each, not...
Recently picked up a lot of harshly-cleaned Roman stuff, which I've been having fun trying to figure out. This Valentinian AE 3 is the nicest of...
I recently got a Philip III Arrhidaios drachm and after looking at hundreds of online examples (including Alexander the Great and also...
Recently I've been accumulating undescribed lots of ancients and then trying to attribute them - this has been very educational, and I've been...
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