No, but I didn't have any serious targets. I bid on four lots and wasn't even the immediate underbidder except on one of those.
What a fun tale and excellent coin! I've picked up a couple of coins that I missed the first time around. This Julia Domna Fecunditas was my...
I don't know why he is sometimes depicted with an elephant headdress on coins of Egypt. In other regions he is seen with a grain wreath or...
That coin caught my eye and made my watch list. I didn't bid but hoped that you did :). Here's a coin of Anazarbus from one of the first large...
I don't have any large Imperial ladies but here's a provincial I hadn't shown before. This drachm of Faustina II has been around... fittingly, if...
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That does seem like an essential ancient! Nice pickup :). Surely it was worth it just for the pleasure of writing this punny paragraph :D. My...
I think he meant hand-struck, not pressed or "struck" with a hydraulic machine :).
The purported find site fits with a Dacian imitation... @Volodya, what do you think? I don't see one quite like this in your papers. Could it...
Hmm, that is a lot to digest! I think I followed it all, and all of it seems to be conjectural. It does seem reasonable that the altar on these...
It is undoubtedly Claudius II, as Orange Julius showed. You can read "KΛΑVΔIOC" on the obverse. The entire obverse legend is mostly readable,...
I didn't realize the figure on these coins was thought to be Silenos. Do you have citations for that designation? Below are a few coins showing...
The Alexandrian is going to be tough to call. By the late Provincial period the portraits were generic and the "Nike flying right" type was...
A nice assortment! @Jochen recently posted a great article about Apollo Philesios, the iteration of Apollo seen on your coin of Ionia:...
I wouldn't risk any mechanical picking or abrasion but if some of those deposits could be removed by simple dissolving, great.
I’d try soaking it in household ammonia.
Lares do... [IMG] Roman Republic, L. Caesius 112-111 BCE AR denarius, 3.92 gm Obv: bust of Vejovis (some references say Apollo?) from behind,...
The reverse (eagle) looks like it is imitating a Roman Republican denarius of Petillius, mirror imaged, with blundered and retrograde legends...
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What a fantastic type-- one I'd really love to have someday. Congrats on the acquisition :).
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