Another new horseman for me. This time an earlyish issue that has passed me by thus far despite having bid on a few. This one has been heavily...
I haven't bought any FTR for a few months and this wek I have had two arrive. This one has an identical attribution to an example already in my...
I have an entirely ego-centric interest is the coins of Mars. I don't really focus on them but try and pick up slightly interesting ones when I...
I don't really dabble with provincials unless they call out to me for some reason. This one looked somewhat odd with the wheel as an attribute of...
We have covered this area before but I will take adding another example of the type to my collection as an excuse to resurrect it. Probus coins...
I am always on the lookout for mints that produced FTR Galleys that I have missing in my collection. I managed to see this one and had to have it...
My most recent acquisition is a little bit different to my usual posts here. I don't really focus on London but I did recently stumble across this...
I seem to have developed a soft spot for imitatives, especially if I have a genuine example that I can match to it. This is my latest:- First...
I have been having a real dry spell. I am simply not bidding high enough to win anything. There have been several coins that fit my collection but...
Yet another distraction..... This time a Numerian with Mercury. I had never seen one in person and found it attractive apart from the crrosion in...
I set myself a goal of only buying coins within my focus areas. I regularly fail in this goal and am too easily distracted by things I see along...
I have a few speciality sub-collections that probably go way beyond what some would consider looking at. Within the COS II series (RIC and BMCRE...
It would appear that the most usual Jupiter type for Max. Herc. from Ticinum is "IOVI CONSERVAT, Jupiter standing left, holding thunderbolt and...
I bought an example of the following coin (same die pair) in March 2004. It was one of the few coins that I have bought that was lost in the post....
I seem to be building another sub-theme, which is the FTR Galley coins from Rome. I am now up to 10. Someof the differences in the sereis are...
Whilst I have a general focus on the eastern issues of Septimius Severus, I try not to buy much of his later eastern issues from...
I thought it might be interesting to set an exercise for people in describing and attributing a coin. As part of the exercise I would prefer it is...
I need some help with this one. I have a couple of these Phoenix on rocks with the symbol in the right field. Constans AE3 Obv:- DN CONSTA-NS...
Here is another Galerius Ant. from Lugdunum after the one I shared here recently:-...
I must admit that I never thought that I would see one of these in person let alone track one down. Emission 6, Officina 3 of Probus from...
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