A couple weeks ago I picked up a couple of Alexandrian tets that had seen better days (environmentally speaking, for the past two millennia), yet...
I'll add to these with a few more from Iberia/Spain: [IMG] Kingdom of Castile & Leon Ferdinand II of Aragon (el Católico; the Catholic) &...
Happy birthday, @Bing!!!! [IMG] Aurelian, Ruled 270-275 AD AE Tetradrachm, Alexandria, Egypt Struck Year 4, 272/273 AD Obverse: A K Λ ΔOM...
I don't doubt it! I got a Claudius sestertius covered in red & green hard stuff with the plan to clean it. The green stuff wasn't too bad,...
It got a lot of the crispness and detail back. She's not hiding any more. I've been thinking about getting some lye for the occasional, more...
I'm thinking it must've been a flaw in the planchet before it was struck (for lack of a better way of putting it, like a little silver nipple) and...
I just got this Byzantine bigg'un from a FB coin group virtual show a week ago. It's just SOOO big! 44mm in diameter! It nearly covers up my...
I just had to get one of my own! It arrived today. [IMG]
Not stupid questions at all... We've all been a beginner, some more recent than others (3 1/2 years in myself). A couple years ago I was working...
In looking at Wolf's PtolemyBronze site, I'm wondering if your's is actually Ptolemy III Tetrobol/Pentobol, Svoronos 1172?...
That's NICE!!! A great result to you retail therapy! Mine is very similar, but without a cornucopia... [IMG] Ptolemy IV Philopator, 222-205/4 BC...
Very cool table! Let's compare this to our standard 40 hour, 5 day work week (inaccurately, cuz I'm sure the average ancient person worked...
I only have a single, lone Probus imperial coin: [IMG] And the rest Alexandrian: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
With all this talk about SC meaning, and much of it relating to Antioch AE coinage, I'll toss these two coins out there. Post-Caracalla Antiochene...
I think it could benefit from cleaning, but it'd be very tough going... :shifty: that green doesn't give up without a fight. Edit: if you even...
Very astute observation, OJ. Here are the few I have from the East... [IMG] MINERVA AVG // VIIC• Minerva, helemeted, draped, standing left,...
I only have Alexandrian tets from these rulers and no imperial coins from them. Carus [ATTACH] Year 1, Emmett 3999 [IMG] Year 1, Emmett 3996...
Very nice write up! Literally, just yesterday, I watched a YouTube video titled nearly the same thing, Aurelian: Emperor Who Restored the World....
I'd agree, and add to the search list "Agathodaemon". :bookworm: "Pegasus" is cool. "Circus" and "Bridge" would be cool too. If someone had a...
It looks like the same coin to me. I wonder if that is BD on that older photo and between being sold again it was treated and changed and softened...
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