I'm originally from Europe, so "California boy for some years" is probably more correct. But believe me, I never managed to pick up a valleyspeak...
My first auction since I moved to the Old World – suddenly, Savoca's shipping fees are much lower! I agree with @Severus Alexander : a year or...
I just read this thread and your discussion with great interest – thanks a lot for bringing it to my attention, Donna! I do find your arguments...
Glad to hear nobody was injured! When I saw the pictures, I feared the worst.... T-Bone and son: [ATTACH] Trebonianus Gallus, Roman Empire,...
I have moved to a different time zone – thus it already is Saturday night for me. Time to revive this thread. The last weeks have been stressful...
A beautiful green-ish horse, @DonnaML! Mine is a chestnut and much smaller as well as older: [ATTACH] Troas, Alexandria, AE10, ca. 3rd–2nd c. BC....
I agree. Here are two more boring Delmatius coins – I bought the second one only because it was mislabeled and too cheap to say no, and I...
@Roerbakmix , you appear to have an enviable talent for always finding coins that are both very unusual and desirable – and this one is a prime...
My Roman collection is full of difficult and generally tragic father-son-relationships: Marcus Aurelius certainly wouldn't have been happy about...
Especially in India, "elephant bells" were used well into the 19th century to warn pedestrians of the approach of an elephant – I guess you better...
That's a fun thread! Here are some more not-so-usual animals: Crab and crabby headdress: [ATTACH] Bruttium, The Brettii, AE ¼ unit, ca. 211–208...
There are people on this board who know much more about these than I do. But since the king's name on the obverse is given in the unusual...
Probably the most approachable more or less recent book on this topic I read is Bernd Kluge: Deutsche Münzgeschichte von der späten Karolingerzeit...
Nice coins, everyone. I, too, thought of the Kushan Vima Takto aka "Soter Megas" when reading the title: [ATTACH] Vima Takto, Kushan Empire, AE...
My main collecting areas, illustrated by some 2020 purchases: 1. High to late medieval Central European coins, especially bracteates. I...
„BRACARAVGVSTANO[RVM]” likely refers to the Cohors III Bracaraugustanorum, an auxiliary unit which is attested to have been stationed in the...
This type has quite a lot of interesting varieties. You'll nave noticed that your temple has a wreath in the pediment and two small statues of...
That's a "radiate fraction" minted for the emperor Maximian in the late 3rd century AD, for further details see here. It's historical value is...
This cannot compete with @Clavdivs ' coin of his dad, but Licinius Junior also had some exceptionally bad engraving work done in his name:...
Well, that's a very beautiful coin! Maybe an expert on these will chime in, but it might be more fun to identify it yourself using this very...
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