A new milestone in yesterday's mail - my first "silver" Roman tetradrachm. And gosh darn it, I'm going to call it silver, despite the dull...
That is a pretty coin, but I do not dare venture an authenticity opinion. Weight and diameter would help with evaluation. At first I thought it...
An interesting situation. Collecting is very personal, and personally, I take the opposite approach to mrbreeze's....which is not to say he is...
A very interesting, and enlightening (and philosophical) discussion. These discoveries are always fun to read about - congrats, ewomack! These...
Great thread, jamesicus. No Caligula temples in my collection, but here is a scruffy Antoninus Pius denarius with the Temple of Augustus:...
This was such a great thread it needs another go-round. The occasion being a Trebonianus Gallus IVNO MARTIALI sestertius I just got in the mail,...
Nice one, Spaniard! Or perhaps I should say, "Oh, that's what one of those looks like." Earlier this month I got RIC 675 - it came in a lot...
I am reviving this thread because it is a good thread and because I just got a sestertius of Antoninus Pius as Caesar (pre "PIVS" era). Lately...
On a bottom-feeder's Saturday night, I've been working on attributions for this $11.50 lot from eBay. I think I'm catching Probus fever - what...
Faustina Friday - I'll drink to that! Just in, a sestertius with Juno (my photo exaggerates the BD-looking green deposits; they seem to be hard...
Elagabalus's teenaged first wife (and my first coin of hers), Julia Paula. FORVM's reprint of Stevenson's Dictionary of Roman Coins has an...
Great post. Here's the Julia Domna paired with a rather scarce Salonina of the same type: [ATTACH]
Thanks, Clavdius!
Nice coin. Here's what happened to one of these pillar dollars (Mexico, 1769) after it got caught up in the China trade for a few years -...
I think that one on the top left is similar to one that baffled me recently:...
For those of us who are easily confused by the LRB Max situation, perhaps somebody could share a teaching moment with us? A few more details on...
I dimly recall from high school Latin that there were masculine nouns with feminine endings. There were four of them (from fading memory):...
No opinion on the Virtus male/female debate, although it is interesting. Here is one from Volusian: [ATTACH] Volusian Antoninianus...
I too benefitted from tenbobbit's generosity. :D A truly great guy indeed.
Very interesting write-up. My only Pisidia, Antioch came in a batch of low-grade Roman Provincials. I'm not 100% of my attribution. If I am...
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