For comparison: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/2616A
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Remarkable work, Alwin. Really impressive.
Thank you all for the comments, information, and wonderful pottery - both intact and fragmentary - that you’ve added to the thread. Much appreciated.
Here are examples from my collection. While most of these may rightly be referred to as sherds, I suppose some folks would opt to refer to the...
Not long ago, I viewed a Youtube video documenting a group of metal detectorists in the UK uncovering a huge hoard of coins. I know my thinking is...
I hope you do this, and look forward to viewing it someday.
Congrats. There is no better pedigree than "Ex-Sellwood Collection" when it comes to collecting Parthians. It doesn't. Since the Fars fractions...
Nice job spotting the anomaly, Steve. I concur with the "Great write up!"
You don't mention size, but it might be an Arados issue, Tyche obverse, with a reverse of Poseidon seated on a gallery prow, Phoenician letters...
Appears to be turreted, not helmeted.
John, I don’t know of any direct parallel. This is a stretch, but the only analogous, extended-time visual transformation conducted for – perhaps...
A good start to 2022, Mat. One of the interesting things about this sub series in Elymaean numismatics is the degeneration of the reverse bust...
Ouch.
An earlier (unbearded bust) and later (bearded) tet of Kamnaskires IV of Elymais, who reigned from c. 63/2 – 54/3 BC. The coin with the bearded...
Quick correction to your listing for #8 (Fonteia denarius): You have the reverse description as: "Rev.: Ship right;..." It should read as: "Rev.:...
Carinated jars of this form - or similar - with buff surfaces and dark brown painted decoration, even sometimes including wavy lines and...
Curious to know if the seller attributed it as Pre-Columbian or whether that's your own speculation.
Wonderful acquisition, Donna, and with outstanding provenance. Congrats. I've got a much more modest piece (an Etruscan dolium fragment) currently...
I've whittled down my Parthian collection to just two basic (but related) types, tets of Vologases II and III:...
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