Great score and congratulations on completing your Elagabalus set!
Thanks to @red_spork for easing my mind about the attribution. I kinda slipped into this one unintentionally but am now even more excited to get...
Just thinking to myself that you may like to read a book by John McPhee called The Ransom of Russian Art where a collector was buying illegal...
In art, a forgery by a well recognized forger would hold its own value, and there are numerous well know forgers, but did you know Michelangelo...
In @Aethelred 's post "My First Republican Bronze" I posted a link to a portion of the Crawford Catalog I have been perusing online. In that same...
That's a good looking coin - I've been looking for one of these myself and most I've come across are pretty horrible, so thumbs up! Here is the...
Wish I could could share a fav with you on your b-day but alas all I can give is "HAPPY BIRTHDAY"
I, for one, appreciate your handwritten envelopes, but once they age 30 years how cool will that be - more than awesome I'd say!
Happy Birthday today Michael !!! Any more B-Day coins to share? -d
Here is a nice post of a couple Lydian coins from member @AncientJoe : https://www.cointalk.com/threads/walwet-hemihekte-and-hekte.270027/
A Roman Republic AE As Janus/Prow is very high on my want list. At present I have exactly Ø RR coins :(
I really like that one a lot!! No coins to share, but you may find these pages from "Arabic Coins and how to read them" of interest: [IMG] [IMG]
Thanks would have to go to our fine member @lordmarcovan who found this coin - I was just lucky he was willing to let it escape his Box of 20!
I don't think I'll ever get tired of showing this one off . . . [IMG] Medieval Croatia (Ragusa): silver grosso portraying St. Blasius and Christ,...
Great gift for yourself @Aethelred - now you just need to tell your wife you feel you really should have something to open on you actual birthday.
I'm likely to faint if you keep posting piles like this and the last. A W E S O M E !!!!!!!
As this is my only one it is my favorite one! [IMG] Maximinus I Thrax (235-238) AR Denarius, Rome AD 235/6. Obv.: IMP MAXIMINVS PIVS AVG -...
It just so happens the weekend before you posted this (APR 29th) I picked up a non-architectural issue at a local coin show. Just now getting a...
I enjoyed that very much! Thanks for posting.
From one Doug to another Doug - Happy Birthday Doug!!! And of course, I owe you my gratitude as well since much of my understanding of ancients...
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