Occasionally I take a look at Roman Republican coins on ebay. All I ever see is page after page of vastly overpriced slabbed coins, by multiples...
Roman Republic, C. Fonteius, AR Denarius, 114-113 BCE. Obv. Laureate, Janiform head of the Dioscuri, control mark N under left chin [mark of value...
Nero, Billon Tetradrachm, Year 12 (65/66 AD), Alexandria, Egypt Mint. Obv. Radiate bust of Nero with aegis, right, ΝΕΡΩ ΚΛΑV ΚΑΙΣ ΣΕΒ ΓΕΡ / Rev....
I think the stars on top of the caps on the M. Fonteius coin are what associates them with the Dioscuri, not the caps themselves.
My example, recently posted again in the Dioscuri thread in answer to the question about thyrsoi/thyrsa/thyrsi (thanks, @Roman Collector!) Roman...
That is an interesting story. But of course in that case, the wings were added in 1844. I do not believe that would occur today, under the modern...
12-hour rule again Next, a sphinx (whether Egyptian with a pharaoh's head or Greco-Roman with a human female head, or any other kind of sphinx)....
The same is true of ancient Greek and Roman marble sculptures assembled from pieces. Anyone who's been to a classical art museum, I'm sure, has...
Beautiful coin, @Roman Collector. I know that the Philip I elephant antoninianus (RIC IV-3 58, RSC IV 17, Sear RCV III 8921) is considered part of...
Even for 2019, that's a fantastic price for a didrachm! @Gam3rBlake, please don't expect to match it -- it would surprise me if you were able to.
12-hour rule (x 2!) Back to Roman coins, here's an example of the SAECVLARES AVGG series issued by Philip I and his family in 248 AD: Philip II,...
It's actually been online for quite some time -- we had at least one thread about it, in which Prof. Yarrow participated, and again when they...
I see the first 3 letters as possibly being AVD, not ADR. Which would fit with Claudius.
Thanks for the new likes. The thread may be more than a year old, but I'll still accept them! The coin I posted in the OP is still one of my...
Two coins I bought as a pair, both originally sold at the 2012 Triton XV auction of the "BCD Collection": 1. Thessaly, Thessalian League...
Thanks. You don't buy Crawford's theory that an association exists? I admit that it isn't based on much (as opposed to the association between...
Don't those two companies slab almost all of the coins they sell? Try CNG, as just one example.
@Gam3rBlake, I was also going to suggest Lighthouse trays (the U.S. version of Leuchtturm in Germany) as a reasonably-priced but still perfectly...
I have no idea why my phone apparently posted something or what it was, so I deleted it. It was the middle of the night; what can I say?
Congratulations, @panzerman; it's a beautiful coin. As it happens, I purchased a coin from cgb.fr at retail a couple of months ago with the same...
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