Amisos, Pontus. Time of Mithridates VI, 85-65 BC. AE28. 28mm, 19 g. Obverse: Head of Athena right, wearing a crested helmet decorated with Pegasus...
Entry Post [ATTACH] Sasanian Empire. Khosrau II. Dated regnal year 33, approx. 623 CE. Silver drachm. 32mm, 4.12g. Susa mint. Obverse: Bust...
[ATTACH] Diocletian. 303-305 CE. AE Follis. 27mm, 9.9g. Rome mint, first officina. Obverse: IMP C DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG. Laureate head of...
It's not really a porcupine is it? I read an article that said it was a super abstract version of a portrait.
I only have Zeus Ammon on bronze Ptolemies. Here is one from Tyre mint. I have posted it before but this is more natural lighting. [ATTACH]
I think I'm reacting so strongly because you don't really have to know anything about previous fakes, or die matches, or anything like that to...
Wow. This is so obvious that this auction house is now on my personal blacklist. This is like selling a 1923 Peace Dollar with a 1986 ASE reverse.
Here is my mid-mass Athens tetradrachm, note the test cut and "interesting graffiti": [ATTACH] Here are some macro shots I attempted today. This...
There are many good suggestions already in this thread. I echo the praise of Ruth Downie and Lindsey Davis for lighthearted Roman murder...
I acquired this heavily clipped siliqua of Valens in CNG eAuction 477: [ATTACH] It arrived today, and it is very nice in hand, very pleasing...
My wife visited the British Museum a few years ago. She said the Sutton Hoo exhibit was easily the most impressive exhibit there and talks about...
Here is one I have with the terminal "I" from Nicomedia. The reverse isn't what you would call high grade, but I like how the patina and earthen...
[ATTACH] I like the Ostia mint style. I can't cite sources but I think there is a theory that Constantine combined the Ostia and Rome mints....
I bid in one Zeus auction. I won two coins with prebids. In both cases, the hammer amount was the exact amount of the prebid. Although in both...
[ATTACH] Nero. Dated regnal year 10 = 63/64 CE. Billon tetradrachm. 25mm, 13.3g. Alexandria mint. Obverse: NEΡΩ KΛAY KAIΣ ΣEB ΓEΡ, radiate head...
[ATTACH] Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt. Ptolemy II Philadelphus. 35mm, 18.4g. 281-246 BCE. Bronze diobol or tetrobol. Alexandria mint. Obverse: Head...
My collection is not very big, so usually I don't post on this thread, but I can do that one! [ATTACH] Alexandria. Claudius. With Messalina on...
Keeping with the Tetrarchy, I have a Diocletian SACRA MONET and a Diocletian SAC MON VRB. [ATTACH] Same emperor, same reverse image, somewhat...
I'm interested
Here is another SALVIS AVGG ET CAESS FEL KART, just arrived from CNG. Interesting colors and patination on this one. [ATTACH] Galerius. As...
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