Initially I had no luck but I worked on it some more. It did find one unrecorded provenance on one coin but missed two others on another. I am...
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This is weird, I thought I had answered on this thread but I cannot see it. Okay it went to Bit heaven. I received my invoice over a week ago and...
Augustus Agrippa As or Dupondius Nemausus Rv. Crocodile chained to palm 9-3 B.C. RIC 158 Next coin Augustus[ATTACH]
Carthaginians in Italy Ar half Shekel HN 2016 215-211 B.C. Next Coin Rome Second Punic War[ATTACH]
Denarius of Cassius Loginus minted by Cornelius Lentulus Spinther Crawford 500/3 42 B.C. Next coin Brutus[ATTACH]
This is quite an impressive technology. The only problem I have is that the reverse is often at some weird angle. But it does give an interesting...
[ATTACH] A bit before but still Roman Tetradrachm of Philip Philidelphos types minted by Aulus Galbinius 57-55 B.C. Antioch RPC 4124
This is a bit of a long story so bear with me. Back in the day when my primary interest was belt fed automatic weapons something of a separatist...
A torque Tetradrachm of Mithradates II of Parthia Sellwood 24.5 119-109 B.C. Next coin Parthia[ATTACH]
As much as we can we should try to find out as much as we can about this seizure. It would be interesting to try to determine what type of coins...
Ptolemy II Ae Drachm Sv497 Lorber B 261 Circa 261 B.C.[ATTACH]
Syracuse 12 Litrai 214-212 B.C. HGC 1412 Obv Head of Athena Rv. Artemis stg.[ATTACH] Of course there is the one everyone sees all the time Stater...
Ae Unica Semi Libral Standard [ATTACH] Crawford 38/6 217-215 B.C.
Smoothing does not necessarily mean sanding down the surface of the coin it could also include filling in some pits or other blemishes with a...
Stylistically it looks a bit like a "Pi" style owl minted circa 353 -290 B.C. However I have very strong reservations about it being authentic....
[ATTACH] Stater of Metapontion 290 B.C. Obv Head of Herakles Next coin Herakles
[ATTACH] Electrum stater of Kyzicus Obv Winged dog stg on Tunny fish Weber 1568 500-450 B.C. Next Coin Mysia[ATTACH]
I used to collect the coins from the mint of Carrhae and discovered this problem when I acquired my copy of Millar probably in 1998. In 2003 I...
Ed Snible I like what you have done with the coins of Parion?/ Olbia? One area of useful inquiry would be comparing the weights of these coins...
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