Nice write-up and coins! I especially like your Septimius Severus sestertius – it has an especially nice portrait. This early denarius shows...
Welcome to the Owl Club! Is this a little test mark that I see on the wing of your owl, or is it something different? Mine has obvious flaws and...
Here is a fairly nice quinarius from 89 BC. The legens on the reverse reads "M CATO:" [ATTACH] Roman Republic, moneyer: M. Cato, AR quinarius, 89...
Here is a little penny from Bamberg I bought a few months ago but haven't posted yet. It looks a lot like a bracteate but actually is supposed to...
I very much like the geese from Eion. Mine is the type with the additional lizard: [ATTACH] Macedonia, Eion, AR trihemiobol, ca. 460-400 BC. Obv:...
That's a good start to a medieval collection! I personally don't focus on British coins and mostly collect medieval central Europe, yet there are...
Another Trebonianus Gallus with a Pax reverse: [ATTACH] Trebonianus Gallus, Roman Empire, antoninian, 251–253 AD, Mediolanum mint. Obv: IMP C C...
That's the funniest eagle I got in my coin collection. Looks more like rotisserie chicken to me: [ATTACH] "Claudius II Gothicus", Roman Empire...
You're not alone. I, too, can only congratulate @DonnaML on the beautiful addition and show a humble Mercury bronze: [ATTACH] Roman Republic,...
Interesting sestertius. That type of Pudicitia reverse appears to be much more common for Otacilia Severa and other later empresses: [ATTACH]...
Nice medal! I've got some medieval coins showing the early building stages of Cologne cathedral. Based on a comparison of the architectural...
Since we started doing rather strange Ayyubid coins today, here is a sloppily produced dirham fraction struck for Saladin. A rather unusual piece...
That's a splendid group of coins, @Curtisimo ! Each and every one of them not only has a good portrait but also an interesting and/or historically...
Kushan coins tend to show a number of deities from different cultures: Heracles (Graeco-Roman): [ATTACH] Kushan Empire, Kujula Kadphises,...
The book is on my reading list now. Although I always have to think of the rather unflattering portrayal of this empress in Marguerite Yourcenar's...
A wonderful example. The Diana obverse is very atractive, and serrated denarii in general are, at least in my opinion, a bit more interesting than...
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