Nice coin. These Elagabalus imperial AEs do seem to be scarce. I lucked into an as a while back - not pretty, but I'm glad to have it. [ATTACH]...
Nice coins. Gloomy and cold here too... Hadrian with the decapitated heads of the sun and moon. [ATTACH] Sunny Constantine. [ATTACH] And...
Thank you Ed, I appreciate the help. I'd never heard of a Boule (a personification of the citizen's council, according to Wikipedia), or...
Ah, the heart is a lonely hunter, when it comes to countermarks. I decided to take another whack at my little mystery AE and found a likely...
Thanks for the observations, Al. Unless I'm reading Wildwinds (and elsewhere) wrong, the three crosses on No. 3 in my post should correspond with...
I recently bought one of these on eBay. They make me nervous, but this one was so cheap I went for it. In addition to modern counterfeits, they...
Interesting. Below are four Justinian Folles showing various degrees of competence in the portraits. I am assuming they are all official -...
Nice coins - here is Marcus Aurelius as an idealistic young fella - before the Germans and a rotten son and too much Philosophy wore him down and...
Sallent, I am embarrassed to say I haven't watched the whole thing since c. 1977! We have it queued up here at home on the Acorn Channel. I...
Great thread! I live for "affordable" ancients. I recently got these two Gordian III antoniniani - the one on the left is RIC 1. They were...
That is a beautiful coin. I have a tough time attributing these - I usually do a Google image search for "Mughal rupee" and hope I get lucky. I...
Interesting thread, with interesting stories. I think it was 1977 when the BBC version of Robert Grave's I, Claudius broadcast on TV. I was in...
Nice Kushans in this post! My only Kushan was kind of an accident too. I plan on getting a few more when the opportunity arises: [ATTACH]...
This will be a let down compared to all those wonderful coins from the 2019 "best of's" everybody is posting. But I believe us bottom-feeders...
Nice one. I really like Spes as a reverse type, and the Flavians did them very well. I have a weird one - the legend seems to be a bit "off"...
Welcome to Coin Talk, Andrew. It's a great place to hang out. That's a nice Nerva you got there - er, your attribution note reads "Nero"...
Nice coins, everybody. I really like Sabina's coins and backstory (being married to Hadrian couldn't've been easy). I am reading Marguerite...
Please keep me (us) posted - this is an interesting topic, I think. Getting a copy of the Bath excavations results would be nice too, although I...
Interesting thread. I don't have any hoard coins, although I hope someday to score something like that. Did you see this thread about Roman...
Great looking coins. I have two of the Faustina II with babies TEMPOR FELIC - one with stephane, one without [ATTACH]
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