Yesterday, Election Day, I got this "political" coin in the mail - Commodus posing as, ironically enough, "Father of the Senate" (PATER SENATVS)...
Here's my Longinus denarius - [ATTACH] Roman Republic Denarius L. Cassius Longinus (63 B.C.) Rome Mint Veiled and diademed head of Vesta...
Welcome to Coin Talk. We will really need to see a photo. I think the site has instructions on how to do it. Also, diameter and weight of the...
A most informative write-up. Not ancient, or medieval, but I think this might be about the last of the coins issued from Ragusa, in 1793. It is...
Yeah, I definitely got confused - I looked up my files on this and it is clearly the king they are talking about. Thank you! By the way, there...
Your image came up fine - that is a lovely example! That type of patina - black/ light green is pretty much my favorite. Very dramatic on yours....
I do like working with unattributed lots - it's more fun figuring them out - educational too. I can't seem to get your photo to open. The...
These Provincials can be difficult to attribute, at least for me. Nice detective work, RC. Sorry to say I can't add anything useful to your...
Munster's Cosmography - 1560. Not anatomically correct, I think. [ATTACH]
An amazing rendition. I admire your work.
Nice pachyderms, Donna (and everybody else). Mine are pretty shabby: Antoninus Pius, Philip the Arab (partial) and a Seleucid: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
That is a spectacular looking denarius, Al. At the other end of the condition spectrum, here is a $4.99 ("buy it now") eBay sestertius with what...
Reviving this thread because I just got a "pellet" reverse Anastasius follis from Constantinople (SB 21), and this post came up when I was trying...
Here's Artemis Anaïtis from Lydia, Hypaepa, twice. There is the cult statue on the reverse of the original host coin, and then a countermark of...
Livia on a couple of Provincials from Lydia: [ATTACH] Gaius Caesar Æ 20 Tralles, Lydia (5 B.C.-1 A.D.) ΓAIOΣ KAI[ΣA]Ρ, bare head...
Nice temple, David. Any temple is a good temple, as far as I am concerned. Here is a recent one I got in a lot. As RC notes, the actual...
Countermarks can be pretty interesting, although many of them are not very well documented, so just why they are interesting is lost to time....
I'm not going to call it a hobby. Yet. In a fit of nostalgia I bought a ratty batch of Matchbox cars off eBay. I loved these when I was a kid...
Nice coin at a good price. Here's a Minerva reverse type for a young Caracalla - I have attributed it to the "Laodicea ad Mare" mint based on...
Every once in a while a cheap Elagabalus denarius comes up on eBay. This is more luck than some consistent "pricing trend" thing. I think this...
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