I like this thread - it's nice to see how everybody is doing. My bottom-feeding eBay purchases have been coming through during the coronavirus...
Thanks RC - I hadn't bumped into that thread. The plague/mice connection is interesting (especially now). That you translate Greek is pretty...
Those are both lovely. The portrait on the first one especially appeals to me - something about that "Antioch Eye". I got an ugly Trebonianus...
At the risk of bringing down the quality of this thread, I just got a new Probus that really dazzled me - the reverse that is. Not mint, but very...
Apollo Smintheus! Huh. Just got an mis-described AE from eBay and while digging into it, found the reverse shows Apollo Smintheus - Apollo the...
All three of those are pretty much spectacular. Good eye!
Commodus Year 30 tet featuring Pronoia - [ATTACH] Egypt Potin Tetradrachm Commodus Year 30 (189/190 A.D.) Alexandria Mint Laureate head...
Nice write up and coins, RC. Whenever I try to attribute a new Gallienus & family coin, I go to https://gallienus.net/ I like this site because...
Thanks for sharing this - it is very interesting. A while back I posted some musings on why there are so many worn Roman denarii on eBay from the...
Thanks Doug, I appreciate the help. The Greek numeral aspect of things did not occur to me - unfamiliarity at the mint sounds like a very...
This post reminds me of an Aurelian I recently got - I think the "S" is a backwards "Z" - or else this is unlisted? I dunno. [ATTACH] Aurelian...
This one may not be rare, exactly, but it seems to be a bit scarce, from what I can tell looking online. It is a big (AE 31) brass from Prusias...
This is my kind of thread. Budget Antonine bronzes have become a kind of obsession lately. Great artwork, interesting personages, hefty, and...
Hadrian younger "heroic bust" with aegis. [ATTACH] Hadrian Denarius (118 A.D.) Rome Mint IMP CAESAR TRAIAN HADRIANVS AVG,...
Here's a worn Antoninus Pius RIC 62a, just the head, poppy barely visible. [ATTACH] Antoninus Pius Denarius (140-143 A.D.) Rome Mint...
Congratulations on your first Ptolemaic bronze. It is a series I am very fond of, and that site Justin recommends is my go-to spot for figuring...
Thank you Doug. I always appreciate a challenge.... I'd already attributed all of these (you are right about the one in row 3 - the condition was...
Nice coin, RC! What a coincidence - I just got one of these as well, and also all the way from the UK. Unlike your lovely green example, mine...
The green one on the bottom row left is, I think, a Celtic imitation of a "lion" issue of Lysimachos. There is a very interesting article by Reid...
Great looking lot there - I really, really like buying ancients this way. Not only are they inexpensive, but they are so much fun to figure out....
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