I won a coin at a major auction house almost 2 weeks ago, paid for it immediately after the invoice appeared, via online transfer of funds from my...
Aeneas was another defeated figure who loomed large in Roman tradition.
[IMG] This portrait (posthumous) is the work of a very talented engraver. The coin goes up for auction tomorrow at CNG. It’s way out of my price...
Everytime I see this Phillip ii portrait I’m more convinced that it is a masterpiece of numismatic sculpture.
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[ATTACH] Diocletian AE Follis (26mm, 9.76 g) Alexandria mint, 1st official Struck c. 302-303
Maybe I’m not understanding what you wrote, but nobody who bought gold at its 1980 $760 high is “underwater” today, not even close.
#4 wonderful sphinx!
You take good photographs too!
Among the giveaways that this is not an ancient coin is the lower case d on the reverse. Lower case letters did not appear in the Latin alphabet...
Here's a Valens solidus that has changed hands a few times. [ATTACH]
Greece has built a beautiful modern museum complex (the Acropolis Museum, at the foot of the Acropolis) to display their cultural birthright when...
By looking at it.
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Stylistically, beginning in the mid 2nd century, Roman coins increasingly loose the classical realism in portraiture that characterized those...
Beautiful 65 +
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Here are some pictures from Split's museum collection. I wasn't collecting when these shots were taken. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
My wife and I stayed for a week in an apartment situated in the Adriatic facing side of the the remains of Diocletian’s retirement residence. The...
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