This is a minute bronze of Aretas IV, issued during the early part of his reign. Your coin does in fact have two letters on it. The caduceus...
Very nice - I think most collectors of countermarked coins are willing to put up with lower grades if the mark is clear. I know I am. I'm assuming...
Yes, quite right. I actually have it attributed as 185 - 148 was a typo. Thanks!
The Shahi of ancient Afghanistan minted tens of millions of the horseman/bull jitals. The type would get imitated by later rulers. Here is an...
I also love CWT's and HTT's. Here are three tokens that I had earlier in the year... [ATTACH]
Hahahah. I had a feeling that pic of me was going to get abused.
One of the fascinating aspects of ancient coins is the fact that all the dies were hand-carved. So there was an official style, but individual...
The second one is Thessalonica mint. Now you're well on your way to collecting a mint set of VRBS ROMA folles. Well done! (Did someone say...
Not crocodiles, aliens. [ATTACH]
Agreed. My latest security addition is the THE JUDGE, because who doesn't need a revolver that fires 410 shot? Lol. [ATTACH] At any rate, one of...
These two sets never cease to impress me. Veritable collecting coups!
I've been a shameless copycat a number of times, to the point of running to vcoins and buying an example of a coin that was just posted on CT so I...
These are such an important part of Roman history, particularly in the transition from Republic to Empire, that I would buy any and all examples...
Hey guys, Bill and I are friends not only on the forum but in real life. We've occasionally engaged in some light-hearted sparring, so y'all need...
Cool. Let me know if you find any of my missing mints!
Magnificent coin, Orfew. What a treasure!
Well, the mints are in order from West to East, a la RIC. I'm good with it actually - the collection isn't about eye appeal. It's about assembling...
As some of you may know, I'm assembling what is possibly the most boring collection of ancient coins conceived by man. In my defense, it was...
They imitate certain Judaean types, but they're not meant to deceive - just jewelry replicas. The prutoh could possibly be real, hard to tell from...
That's a great database you've got where you can call up all the images associated with a particular word and put them together into one image....
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