I always enjoy these excellent essays that place the coins in their historical context. We all have so much to learn from each other! A great coin...
April 21 was a date on which the Romans threw a festival called the Parilia, for the goddess of shepherds, Pales. Ovid describes the festival in...
Great coin! - I didn't even know the type existed.
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I got tired of paying the tolls when I went to NYINC, so I hitched up old Hippocrates and we went along the back roads. [ATTACH]
I love images like that because we're so accustom to looking at coins one at a time, that we forget just how many thousands, and sometimes...
Those are lovely coins Martin! There is an entire universe to collect in the IOVI CONSERVATORI series - many varieties, many mints, and you can...
That's a matter of taste. Here is a coin that's almost black, with deep metallic blue undertones, but it's gorgeous. To polish this coin would be...
Personally I don't like a shiny look to ancient silver. It is ancient after all. If a silver coin is too dark for my tastes, and the color is not...
Nice find! It's the first time I've seen Aeternitas on a Hadrian denarius, and the first time I've seen her in that aspect, holding the heads of...
Lots of great stuff there! Nice work - someday I hope to get to the Chicago show.
Well if you're selling, I'm buying! Send me a PM though - we're supposed to keep buying and selling off the main forum as per the moderators' request.
Yes, very apropos post to this old thread! That's the only drachm of Trajan that I've seen that is clearly overstruck on a drachm of Rabbel II....
So, you've had the coins for a week - don't you usually put them in your album soon after they arrive. When is the last time you think you saw...
I'm thinking your wife found the envelope and hid it. Now she's waiting to see how long it takes for you to crack.
Oooh man that sucks. Here's hoping and praying fervently that you find that envelope!
No disease at all - the deposits are completely hard. I sold the coin to Sallent and I checked it thoroughly first. I never knowingly sell a coin...
Reid Goldberg has a nice analysis of these coins here. Also, Barry Murphy was working on a catalog of the varieties here. I don't know if he's...
Soo...post your coins of Pupienus?
I recently made this post, describing two small provincial coins issues by Caligula in Philadelphia, Lydia... The first has our favorite sea-goat...
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