I like the #2 Trajan which is new to me but I do have the matching Baalat-Hera didrachm (6.39g). [ATTACH]
I defer to @maridvnvm on all things IMP. That is what was once called Laodicea ad Mare but most of the coins that read IMP with no following...
Every time this comes up, I show one of my two better fourrees so this time you get the bad ones. Basil I [ATTACH] Michael IV [ATTACH]
What Valentinian says is quite true but there is a tendency for sestertii of this period to have edges that are squared off a bit while asses are...
In the last 24 hours we have watched three different movies of Dickens 'Christmas Carol' including the BBC/FX heavily augmented one that clocks in...
Please tell us what it is. I have Hartill (and two older works) and have identified a couple hundred cash (mostly Northern Song but a few other...
I favor #3 but really do not know why since I am generally adverse to the oligarchs and the system they founded. I do not have anything like it.
I disagree with most of the negative comments posted here but believe the two above sum up my feelings best. I have seen relatively few boring...
This is how our hobby works. Those who do not have a coin hope they find a bunch while those who do prefer theirs was the last one ever found. It...
When it come to Christ portraits, the other end of the spectrum comes with this stavraton of John VIII, the next to last Byzantine emperor. Of...
I believe many of us avoid #2 and #3 because we do not read the language even to the point that we don't see the non alphabetic writing as...
That owl is a square type I had not seen. Thanks for sharing it.
Far more people are killed by horses than ....... Philip I antoninianus Eastern mint [ATTACH] Next: A really dangerous animal
Few of us appreciate the depth of some of the collections of a few of our members in their specific fields. If you go a week reading Coin Talk...
I see nothing worth trying to clean. While not high grade, this is better than 90% of the coins we see here posted by people with only one...
...as you should be. That is a nice coin with good detail on the omphalos. Mine lost the omphalos (and flattened detail on the obverse) to a...
Don't forget when shopping for Decentius that he also issued the large Chi-Rho type. They are harder to find in decent shape than are the two...
I like the idea but question your choice for the 21st century for a non-circulating coin that basically says coinage is dead and all we have left...
I strongly believe that there is a premium attached to coins that show old form Egyptian subjects rather than Hellenistic creations/imports. This...
I am unclear on how we are supposed to tell the last coins made on the last day of Claudius' reign from a mule using up left over obverse dies...
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