Excellent post. Demetrios's career reminds me of Enoch Powell's gloomy dictum "All political careers end in failure " [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
@Ryan McVay - welcome to Coin Talk. The electrum issues of Kyzikos have numerous examples of winged creatures. Their celators seem to have been...
" To me, "Read the Book" is not so much a coin book, rather a History Book." In case you dont know them already, I recommend the books of Frank...
@Nathan B - thank you for your article. My Indo Greeks were mainly collected before they were so popular . [ATTACH] Indo-Greek Kingdom,...
[ATTACH] SESTERTIUS. AE 22.45 gr. – 31.14 mm . O:\ LVCILLAE AVG ANTONINI AVG F; Bust of Lucilla right. R:\ PIETAS S-C; Pietas stg. Left, altar at...
This was sold as a limes denarius, but is it a modern fake ? Opinions please ! [ATTACH] Septimius Severus Æ Limes Denarius. Rome, AD 204....
Lovely example - here's mine [ATTACH]
[ATTACH] Septimius Severus 193-211. Bronze, Nikopolis ad Istrum/Moesia inferior. Head with laurel wreath to the right Emperor on horseback to the...
Congratulations - a lovely coin still on my wants list
Apologies for the duplication - a system failure.
I have posted Trajan sestertii quite recently, so here are some of my favorite denarii : [ATTACH] IMP CAES NERVA TRAIAN AVG GERM, laureate head...
Another favorite [ATTACH] Faustus Cornelius Sulla AR Denarius. Rome, 56 BC. Draped bust of Diana right, wearing diadem with crescent; lituus...
Thanks as always Jochen This is a varient of Zumbly's coin above I love the way Marsyas tiptoes along the meander pattern [ATTACH] Turreted...
As far as I am aware, none of these possible lifetime representations are explicit before Julius Caesar. Does anyone disagree ? @Amit Vyas - nice...
@Finn235 - lovely coin. I also have one from Sardes [ATTACH] Drusus Julius Caesar and Germanicus (heirs of Tiberius), as Caesars, Æ28 of Sardis,...
@Terence Cheesman - lovely example . Mine lacks the wreath [ATTACH] BCD Peloponnesos 220 (wreath on obverse); HGC 5, 201 (same); cf. CNG e418,...
Here are the rings [IMG] Rings (Osenringen) [Credit: M.H.G. Kuijpers] They found that even though the objects' weights varied, around 70%...
@Jochen1 - informative as always. I suspect Juba's scholarly nature made him a good client king - not too ambitious. He produced many interesting...
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