I have also recently read that scholarship was tending to say the bridge on Trajan's coins was more likely to be the wooden bridge to the island...
"Republican Provincials" attributable to J. Caesar seem to be about as common as chicken lips - this will make the person for whom I'm cataloging...
Thanks Ed! - you're the man! A vase you say, eh? - interesting, I've never seen anything quite like it.
I forgot that I had a view from when I tried rotating it and punching-up the contrast in a hue with more gray in it (surprisingly, clearer than it...
I was asked to supply an ID & reference for this 19 mm, 8.57 g piece. There is plenty of legend on it as Greek coins go - a little sparse for a...
Ahh, It seems I spoke too soon - I do have an image of his Filius Augustorum (along with Maximinus II) issue: [IMG]...
Not one of the better looking pieces, but it brings to mind the period of chaos Constantine was still "Caesar" while the various Caesars of the...
If you type the names, titles and reverse legends over and over you'll actually develop a muscle-memory for typing the names and details, many of...
Picking up on "obscure references" and noticing minutiae is what the study and appreciation of ancient coins is all about, after all
This is a more-or-less typical example of a contemporary copy of a Tetricus Pax Avg antoninianus with largely legible and literate legends, for...
At the size and with the lack of useful legend on the obverse, it could theoretically be a contemporary copy of almost anyone, but Tetricus I is...
Except, of course, for the radiate-crown dupondii.
As Verus, as Augustus, was a de-facto "junior partner" to Marcus Aurelius, it's not at all unusual to find his portraits bare-headed. Laurels were...
Not a scientific analysis, but on the basis of many coins seen over decades, I'd say you'll probably find that throughout the "dark days" of the...
Doug, you have probably noticed it's difficult to strike a happy medium between encouraging new collectors and thereby driving up prices or seeing...
Ah yes, I remember it well... It was right after Sputnik I, so I was 8 in 1957, and that's when my somewhat disreputable Uncle Lester gave me a...
I'm a little surprised that no one has shown a coin yet which has become more attractive due to lucky accidents of wear, corrosion, aging and...
Thanks! I just need to add that oversimplified, sweeping generalizations are always wrong... ( ;<{D}
We have a tendency to "compress time" when talking about "the ancients" - as though there were only 100 or so of them and they did everything all...
For those finding this thread of interest, and in hopes of avoiding whatever the photo-uploading glitch may be, I have placed 9 new images of...
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