here is a link to an interesting article about measuring the concentration of lead pollution from ancient times in ice cores from Greenland....
Hello all, I’ve been letting a pile of coins just sit on my desk as I help my baby learn to crawl and stuff. But enough of that. I was...
Hello All, I just bought an unidentified Roman Provincial which I have tentatively ID'd as from Hadrianeia, Mysia. I did not find a match on WW,...
This is my last post of the week. After digging into the Provinces, regular issue denarii seem kind of boring. Not transliterating Greek into...
I have added several coins of Nikopolis ad Istrum this week. Nikopolis ad Istrum is just west of Markianopolis in the province of Moesia...
We are not going to Sun City, Arizona to retire. But Heliopolis, Coele-Syria! Heliopolis, or modern day Baalbek, Lebanon, not to be confused...
Well, Bizarre Love Tetrarchy never made the charts, so you get what you get. Also, there is what could be a triangle involved, but that comes...
...actually, The Retrograde Letter, but "The Scarlet Letter" sounds way more interesting. So I bought this antoninianus of Probus as I usually...
After consulting with @dougsmit to be sure of an attribution of an Emesa mint coin, I am able to post this last of my recent purchases. I...
Just an update with a couple of nice coins that I paid about $15 each. Pretty good stuff, if you ask me. The silvering on the first is about as...
I am sure that no one in their right mind is collecting Constantine/Licinius coins by mintmark like I am so I am not sure why I am even posting...
Hello all, I hope everyone is doing well. I've been working a ton for the last three weeks with no days off so now that I do have time at home, I...
Hello all, I'm curious to see if anyone will read this post with that title. Haha I had a couple of nice little bronzes show up on my doorstep...
Probus times 3! Today I have three coins that I found sort of all over the place. None of which cost me more than $20. Which I like. Very...
It's a pile o' provincials of Septimius Severus! I've taken to grouping these together so hopefully some folks will still read these posts lol....
Hello All, I have a few new coins today and these two do not fit neatly into my other postings. So here they are. I enjoy learning more about...
...with some bonus Probus! I was able to finally afford a nice VENVS GENETRIX of Julia Domna recently. I found that for whatever reason, either...
Old Provincial Pieces, that is. And not really, I'm throwing in a denarius too because I don't want to a) create another thread and bore everyone...
Well, maybe not a party. Two guys not only wore the same stuff, but they have the same name. Just a few new later Roman bronzes that have...
...but mostly me. A pair to my earlier post: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/septimius-severus-cos-ii.306390/ [ATTACH] Excuse the photos, I...
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