"You"? Not "we"?
Why produce a legend that isn't compatible? To make people think it's a barbarous imitation? Hadrian's nose, forehead and ear look nothing like...
A few of my favorite helmets on ancient coins, atop the heads of Athena, Roma, Mars, Arcadius, and Constantinopolis: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
I am sure it was.
Definitely!
I highly recommend each and every one of Harry Sidebottom's novels, all of them taking place in the mid-3rd century, beginning with the...
I guess I'm confused: what makes that coin a restitution issue, then?
Gorgeous! I have no virtual trays at all -- just a whole lot of real ones! -- but here are my three denarii from Hadrian's Travel Series: Egypt,...
If you haven't already, you might want to read the article from a few years ago arguing that the Trajan camel drachms like the one below were...
Very nice! Just out of curiosity, what was the original version of this coin?
Legionary denarius not issued by Mark Antony: Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, AR Denarius [Restored Issue of Mark Antony Legionary Denarius...
Wow; those boxes of coins! So impressive, and so neatly organized. (I would have guessed that they hold closer to 500 or 1,000 than 197.) I wish I...
No kidding! I do wonder sometimes why so many of us feel guilty about spending money on ancient coins, as if there's something inherently...
Does Beckmann have written descriptions of the characteristics of Types 7 and 8 that you might be able to post, or is it all done via photos? Thanks!
I wish I did -- five minutes of googling yielded nothing quite like it. I wish the museum of archaeology in Sousse, Tunisia had a website with...
I ended up writing to the dealer last night, providing him with the links to the three examples at Forvm of fakes with the same flan cracks. He...
@Spaniard, I'll store it inside a glass bell jar/dome, like so many of my other antiquities. I just ordered one for it -- it barely fits in the...
That's a truly amazing figurine. Wow.
My only concern when I bought my specimen was that it looked awfully silvery for an Alexandrian billon tetradrachm from the mid-2nd century AD....
Thanks again. Whether the bust was intended to represent Faustina II herself or some patrician lady imitating her hairstyle at a particular time,...
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