Once an electrotype is made from an original, can it be reproduced infinitely? Or does each electrotype have to be separately made from an...
That's gorgeous.
I dug through some old papers and have to apologize: the Ti. Veturius and Trajan Decius denarii I posted above were, in fact, the first Roman...
The Old and Young Pretenders! Beautiful! Of course, given your user name, you would refer to the former as James VIII rather than as James III,...
An excellent comparison! I agree with you.
That's a truly beautiful example of the Charles I Scottish coronation medal, @scottishmoney. I used to own one myself, which I bought from...
Wow. Even I would recognize that as being tooled. This was sold at auction, or a retail sale? If the dealer was Dr. Busso Peus Nachf. in...
12-hour rule. I have no coins with Jupiter in a biga, unfortunately. Next: Jupiter (not Zeus) on the obverse, as on this coin: Roman Republic,...
Well, I guess historical medals aren't coins. For those who never visit the World Coins forum, see my several posts in a thread over there about...
How about this one, since it's less common than some of my other coins showing a pileus: Roman Republic, L. Aurelius Cotta*, AR serrate Denarius,...
It's in considerably better condition than my own example of that case, which you can see in a photo of a tray where I keep it, together with most...
Wow! That's completely amazing. The closest thing I have that's analogous to your find is a copy I purchased some years ago on Ebay of a very...
A lot of so-called "camp gates" look a lot like stone castles or fortified city gates: Diocletian, AR Argenteus, ca. AD 295, Heraclea Mint (1st...
Sure. It's on a lot of Trajan's coins (and later the coins of other emperors) after he was given the title Optimo Principi, as part of the legend...
Sorry about your son. I know what you mean about health care expenses. Even though I'm on Medicare, I just finished paying more than $6,000 for...
If one compares the portrait of Victoria on the official coronation medal (using your photo, since the only photo I have of mine is the group...
No apologies necessary! Unlike the case with my ancient coins, for which I've made sure since I began collecting them in 2017 that I have either...
I am fairly certain that the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is on the same level as the British Museum and at most a dozen or so other museums...
That's irrelevant to what people like the ones who would be considered for positions like this currently make.
Very nice! Here's my one Constantine II: Constantine II Caesar (son of Constantine I), Æ reduced Follis. small bust type, Heraclea Mint (5th...
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