What a beautiful photo! It looks like an old oil painting. Here's the goddess of my bathroom :D [IMG] Venus Cloacina, goddess of the Great...
This is an interesting point and I wonder how well it applies to ancient coins, whose flans were not machine-made nor always flat, although they...
Life sometimes gets in the way of leisure pursuits... stop by when you can, DR! :)
The weather! What an interesting interpretation!
Apparently she was an elite prostitute (a hetaira). Wow... what a super-interesting coin. I wish I had one!
Nero's reign has high points in numismatic art, as shown on the reverse of this sestertius... [IMG] Nero struck in Rome, CE 63 Orichalcum...
Very cool!
I wonder if it is the ancient equivalent of a practical joke, assuming it is in fact ancient. The letters on the reverse look odd in their...
o_O It looks like... o_Oo_O It looks like two dogs atop a column, about to... erm, well, just look at it. I've not seen this before but I'm...
Looks like I contradicted myself in my last post :D.
That's the real question. Perhaps the answer varies from person to person. Being someone who tends to focus on the interestingness of a coin's...
Here's a different lifelike reconstruction of Nero from https://blog.theaterakademie.de/post/news/hautnah.html [IMG] Additional ancient Roman...
H. V. Canter (July 1928). Personal Appearance in the Biography of the Roman Emperors. Studies in Philology, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 385-399. The...
:wideyed: Oooh, shipping is going to hurt.
Wow, you've really expanded those pages! They are a lot of fun and a quick trip through the pages showed that I have indeed learned some things...
Thanks for the heads-up!! There have been many changes in attributions since Svoronos and I'm long overdue for a re-inspection of all my...
If it isn't a fourree with a break in the plating, then it it was probably buried in contact with a coin or other metal object containing copper,...
That really remarkable brickwork, especially compared to the usual way bricks were engraved. Compare it to this LRB camp gate: Constantine I,...
I should have put the halved coins furthest away. They can run faster because they only weigh half as much. :shame::joyful::joyful:
I think it's Greek rather than Roman. In the second set of images, the reverse (the left image) looks like a small bust of Athena or someone...
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