Very, very interesting portrait on this one — more than a touch of Caligula in it, no? The old antiquarian classification for the bronzes are...
And another! This was promptly dispatched by the seller but, having arrived in the UK, then sat around in customs for a literal month until...
There was a discussion on this seller a few days ago: a very, very curious operation the more I think about it. This person is clearly acting in...
Whether these are just more ramblings or descriptions of actual steps taken I don't know, but these feedback responses would seem to dramatically...
And another! This dates from the first couple months of Hadrian's reign: his very first issues (evidently put out without his full oversight --...
A camera is really the only way to go, as noted, but I think one actually can produce good images on a scanner -- the coins have to be...
Nothing at all remarkable here but I'm extremely fond of the portraiture on Hadrian's early issues (conferre my avatar) and so am pleased to have...
A common denominator, as noted, is apparently anything which can be made by its sellers to bear some Biblical connotation or other: as well as the...
By way of completely unsolicited advice: as a fellow subscriber to the "cutting out phone pictures in photoshop" school, one thing which I think...
Very interesting — don't believe I'd ever seen one of these before. Rather strong Byzantine ambience from the text-only obverse. Are those things...
Very pleasant coins all round (and, frankly, I don't mind the car too much either) A question occurs: it seems like the eagle is quite an...
Great coins everyone! Rather fortuitously I happen to have a counterpart of my coin in the OP with a much stronger tone: [ATTACH] Comparing...
Well put — if this coin, as dug up, was naturally patinated in the usual way, and at some later point was stripped judiciously and set aside for a...
Recently acquired from the good people at Forvm: [ATTACH] Trajan, 103-111AD: O: laureate head right, drapery on far shoulder, IMP CAES NERVAE...
Probably my favourite Roman, if that's the right word — what combination of perceived potence and impotence causes a man to be unsatisfied with...
Entirely new information to me! Thank you very much for making me aware of this.
An utterly pointless observation, but this is probably the least inopportune moment I'll ever have to make it -- a lot of the Hellenistic rulers...
Very interesting, thank you! To my regret I don't have JSTOR access but I'll see if I can get somebody to hook me up — this is an area about which...
Highly interesting coins and discussion: that both the Parthian and Sassanian coin portraiture descended (or developed, depending on your...
Hauling this one up from a few pages back, seeing as I now have a specimen of my own: [ATTACH] Nero, Antioch or Seleucia Pieria, 54-68AD: O:...
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