Interesting and nice coins. [ATTACH] LOWER DANUBE CELTS AR Drachm OBVERSE: Stylized head of Herakles with wild hair, right REVERSE: Stylized...
Happy birthday @svessien [ATTACH]
[ATTACH] TRAJAN DECIUS AR Antoninianus OBVERSE: IMP C M Q TRAIANVS DECIVS AVG - Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust...
You are absolutely correct -- once you get around all the quadrigas and such.
Really? I thought everyone was tired of seeing it. There for a while I seemed to be posting it all too often.
[ATTACH] MARCUS ANTONIUS AR Denarius OBVERSE: ANT AVG III VIR R P C, Praetorian galley, thyrsos behind prow...
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The reverse on the last coin you posted @Roman Collector put me in the mind of one of the tobacco barns back home (minus the roof decorations)
[ATTACH] TACITUS Antoninianus OBVERSE: IMP C M CL TACITVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right REVERSE: CLEMENTIA TEMP, Tacitus...
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Rest assured, you have. I looked up the meaning of antepenult using my external brain when I first saw it in this thread. It's not a word I will...
A day is never a waste if one can learn something new. This is a new one on me. Where I have been all these years (under a rock I presume).
Nice coin; but that is a fiddle she is holding (a rather large fiddle) [ATTACH] L PROCILIUS ROMAN REPUBLIC; GENS PROCILIA AR Denarius OBVERSE:...
Oh, I've looked up the pronunciation in the past, but I just can't look at the name and pronounce it correctly. I guess my brain is not wired...
I have more trouble with the proper pronunciation of names like Elagabalus
As Albert Einstein put it: “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, what then is an empty desk?
One other thought occurs to me. You need to start cataloging your coins straight away. Keep as much information in your catalog as possible,...
Let me give a little insight from my own experiences. When I began actively collecting after a couple of decades of absence, I started buying...
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