Thanks for the explanation! Fascinating.
Wonderful finds! How do you think Ferdinand and Isabella ended up so far East?
Have you tried posting something on the boards as a test?
Athena's prices are so high in general that one almost has to discount them. Leaving entirely aside their habit of fiddling with the appearance of...
Those coins are lovely. All my best wishes for a wonderful new year, numismatically and otherwise. (I just looked at your profile; I had forgotten...
Good luck finding an Aspendos stater next year. It seems that they're quite popular. The positive aspect is that they certainly aren't rare, even...
Thanks, John. The provincial version is discussed extensively in the 2015 Woytek & Butcher article I cited in my description (see...
As I posted above, I think I was fortunate to buy the Aspendos stater from HJB for the "buy" price, within a couple of hours of when the sale...
Thanks, and the same to you!
I looked mine up (see above) and I paid about $80 for it from Aeternitas in Spain. Here are the search results at VCoins, ordered from highest to...
The Maximinus II and Philip I are both fantastic. I also voted for the very nice Quintillus. I am particularly impressed with the price you paid...
Well, perhaps page 2 the next day rather than page 20, but that doesn't necessarily mean "forgotten"; just the end of active commenting. I do...
Here's a Macedonian tie-in: Roman Republic, M. Caecilius Q.f. Metelllus, AR Denarius, 127 BC (Crawford, RSC, Sear), ca. 126 BCE (Mattingly, op....
That's one sure-fire way to get rid of all the trolls. Just ban everyone!
Wow, that's an incredible collection. I actually have no weapons in my collection of close to 100 ancient artifacts.
I believe that the dealer in question is a member of the Facebook Ancient Coins and Ancient Coins Sales groups, and posts in both groups fairly...
I should mention, but forgot to do so earlier, that I have our fellow Coin Talk members to thank for two of the ten coins I've posted in this...
Thank you! That 1960 pedigree for the Arcadius (for which the dealer, Dr. Busso Peus Nachf., kindly provided copies of the relevant pages of the...
Thanks, @Limes. I'm glad you noticed the quality of the reverse on the Arcadius -- I think it's pretty amazing in its detail and...
I remember that discussion, and looking at about a million photos of captives' bent legs before I wrote it! If I had left that footnote in my Top...
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