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Here's a copy-paste from a thread I created a few months ago entitled Two Mythological Scraps of Caligula from Philly Lydia The first has our...
Iconium was a city in Central Anatolia. The region had been inhabited since the Copper Age, c. 3000 BC. It was colonized by Greeks in the 8th...
Here's the same image at a better resolution... [ATTACH]
I like that, lol. Yeah, it's a nifty, bright little coin. Puts a smile on your face!
And finally Caesarea Maritima has also been mentioned. I probably read too much into this coin, but Marcus Aurelius epitomizes the philosophic...
I have two more C's I need to get out of my system before I can move on. A coin of Cyrrhus was already posted, but no history of the city. It's...
I have one last coin from Caesarea Cappadocia, that I just discovered today, rummaging through a box of bronzes I recently bought. It's not the...
Do you remember in grade-school track, when the starting pistol would fire and everyone would explode out of the starting gate? Then a minute...
Another example is the spelling of Verus as OVHPOC on this coin of Amastris that I posted earlier. [IMG] Lucius Verus, AD 161-169. Æ20, 3.6g,...
Here's a selection of modern Eastern hammered coins. Two bronzes of Wodeyar III, two of Tipu Sultan, a thin silver Tangka of Nepal, a small silver...
Yes, he minted some great little coins! I'm a big fan of modern coinage minted by ancient methods, and he's one of my favorites, although he did...
The medallion looks smoothed to me, but not tooled. The few examples on acsearch have about the same amount of detail but fairly rough surfaces. I...
That's a beautiful graphic as always, Ray, and I like how the three coins demonstrate styles that move gradually away from quasi-Roman to...
I love the style of these coins, and I've been looking for more information on them. Thank you for the link to that paper - I look forward to...
The drachm is almost certainly tooled with artificial sand deposits applied.
Damn, those dies are so fresh they had to live with their aunty and uncle in Bel Air.
That Celtic tet is a real winner, wow!
Well, years ago, one of my first eBay sales was returned because the coin was too small! Lol. The dimensions were clearly spelled out in the...
I know nothing about them, but they are certainly very attractive coins!
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