To me it looks like the flan has been clipped after striking, as there is no metal exceeding the edges or cracks after a strike. The edges are...
Parthicus and Robinjojo, thanks to both of you. I like all the coins you have shown here, and would like to get more types. Yours is a very nice...
Great coin, photo and editing. It’s a good thing that people can have different opinions on how to present a coin. In the end it’s up to...
That’s quite helpful, thank you. I was aware of Stephen Albums catalog, but not that it was free online. Thanks!
You’re right, @robinjojo I’ll put the Gamma into the description. And thank you for the link! I register my world coins on numista, but I didn’t...
[ATTACH] While performing my usual bottomfeeder auction routine, I came across this coin. I even had to outbid another bidder to get it, for the...
As we’re into space too here, let me share a good article about astronomical symbols on ancient coins: https://tjbuggey.ancients.info/astro.html...
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I know this sounds extremely boring for a Saturday night, but is it possible that the two dots are not signs of an alien master race, but the caps...
I would guess France late 19th/early 20th century. There are many nice bronzes with classical motives made there at that time. Could of course be...
[ATTACH] From what I am able to google, Plutarch wrote that during this triumph of Orodes II, the head of Crassus was held up by an actor as...
I would guess an earlier issue from the same region. Like this earlier archaic version?...
Very nice and interesting coin. Is there any reason why the dead Medusa has a head on her body here, while Perseus is holding her real head in...
[ATTACH] I have the suspect type 1. Luckily there is a die link to a coin with good pedigree. I really like these coins, and have often thought...
I understood this post a lot better when I realized that «carry out» is the same as take away, and could stop imagining the Smith family being...
They have started making small lenses for the phone cameras now. I think it matters more if you find the right lense, than if the iPhone is a 8,...
Ah, everybody forgets fathers day anyway. Best practice of it, is to have it as a movable day, that you can use for the extravagance you really...
Haven’t Italian auction houses been shipping from Austria, Switzerland or San Marino at times when the government has been uncooperative? I think...
I think they do it by using a reflection background, which will create depth in the photo.
A Norwegian satirical writer took on this subject. His claim was that those migrating north did so out of a feeling of security, as they got...
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