Yes, although to be fair it does smell pretty nice, and is semi-affordable if you don't buy it a liter at a time!
Yes, and I suppose it's anyway futile to deny that something is art if others are willing to treat it as such, or to insist that they appreciate...
I don't like abstract modern art, but with some there's at least some discernible skill of composition or color involved, and in others not so...
Or from same auction, how about "No.7" by Mark Rothko for $82.5 million ! [ATTACH] Apparently this sale was the product of a divorce. Maybe...
Yes, it does look rather like it, apart from those arch-like things at either end of the bridge on the coin. It makes me think of a modern...
There's a loosely related video here that I found very enjoyable, about a treasure found in the Rhone river dating to Constantinian Arles. Among...
Lars Ramskold has just posted a detailed follow-up paper to his Niz and Byzantium 2020 video presentation here:...
Why waste time self-reflecting when you could be browsing for coins ? ;)
Haha .. multiple times a day. For what I collect, LRBs, eBay is still the primary source, but also VCoins, MA Shops, biddr, sixbid, and a few...
Well, I learned something new there myself! As a CT newbie, I didn't even realize you could cut-and-paste photos, so I've just been using the...
Whip it. Whip it good... That sent me down a rabbit hole of YouTube videos last night watching Devo, Blondie (who they've been on tour with in...
Magnentius, RIC VIII Rome 206, post-Nepotian mid 351 AD Obv: [DN MA]GNENTIVS PF AVG Rev: VRBS [ROMA] Quite a scarce type, being a very brief...
LOL! Excellent meme! I'm waiting for right occasion to be able to use a few of those!
This was certainly true for the 1st tetrarchy, but, in the west at least, seems to have rapidly reverted to more individualized portraits after...
NIce coin! (Is that the prize ?:D) The second one looks like Severus II as caesar (draped busts used for the caesars).
Daia, London.
Well ... It's hard to say. The earliest sources that offer any suggestion as to what happened are already 100 years after the event, although it...
I'm guessing that, for Fausta and Helena, there may have been busts provided for the mints to copy, same as for the emperor himself, since the...
Kind of makes you wonder if Little Cloak (Caracalla) and Little Boots (Caligula), who both turned out to be psychos, may have been affected by an...
With Caligula's nickname being ... Caligula, meaning "Little Boots". That one really stuck! The name comes from what appear to us as sandals,...
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