12-hour rule. Next, an elephant or elephants on a Roman Imperial coin. Here are two of mine, respectively from Titus and Septimius Severus:...
From all the stories about Ms. Cameron's passing on various websites, it's remarkable how many people seem to remember her fondly, given that the...
Sorry to hear that. Herewith some coins depicting Isis, all but one showing her with the infant Harpocrates ( = "Horus-the-child"). Detailed...
Well, gee, given a choice between those two if I had $400K, it would be a hard decision on which one is more beautiful and artistic, right? I...
Welcome! Here are some more Gordian III's, to continue to show some variety -- two denarii, an antoninianus, and a Roman Provincial coin depicting...
There are a number of Roman Republican types with hundreds of different control-symbols (sometimes simply in the form of numbered obverse and/or...
My only two coins from the Serdica mint are both from the earlier period, under Probus. Note the citation to the Philippe Gysen article devoted to...
According to acsearch, of the 625 previous auction sales of the Roscius Fabatus (Juno Sospita/maiden and snake) denarius in their database, the...
Any theory on the one that sold for 10,000?
12-hour rule: Here are a couple of examples of Athena at least heading towards combat, even if she's not necessarily engaged in it yet:...
10,000 Euros at Aureo & Calico for a coin for which 1,500 Euros would be an extremely high price? That's more than a "stronger bid." And Aureo &...
I can understand why someone might pay a lot of money for an original, signed limited-number print of a photograph that was actually developed by...
I don't see the hammer price on the first one?
Forget real original art, how about the tens and even hundreds of thousands of dollars people are spending on crypto "art" in the form of NFT's --...
A similar example sold at the Leu auction for 1,600 CHF, which is itself an exorbitant price in my opinion, but not so ridiculously high as to be...
The Leu prices were ridiculous, but this Aureo & Calico auction was even worse: what looks like a nice but standard Roscius Fabatus denarius with...
There are more than 60 different control-symbols for this type listed in Crawford Vol. I, Table XXXV at pp. 401-402. I love the owl. . The snake...
I think that's Antoninus Pius on the obverse. The beard is pretty distinctive.
This is my example of a very similar coin to your original MA denarius, with a slight difference in the obverse legend: Marcus Aurelius AR...
I was thinking the same thing: it's a provincial coin, so it wouldn't be a quinarius. See...
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