Wonderful coin. I agree with Doug. Why was the Alexandria mint so stingy with Egyptian themes when so many other provincials frequently take up...
Nice. Thank you. Bookmarked.
That's a nice one - lots of detail. Good choice!
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Lovely set Doug! Well, mine was sold to me upside-down and mis-attributed, but the lettering certainly didn't look like anything on the coins of...
Thank you my numismatically omniscient friend!
lol :D
So I have this coin, which came to me as a massa of Lilavati, but the letters don't seem to jibe with the legend Sri Ra ja Li la va ti. I'm...
Great, thank you! I'll watch that later this evening.
Just show-and-tell, nothing profound, but nice VF-EF coins. S. Alexander and Elagabalus, two of Mars, two of Salus, Sol, Providentia. The harder...
I know well the pleasure of coming across a rare variety and snatching it up before anyone else does! It's a kind of smug self-satisfaction, lol....
Indeed. If anyone doesn't know of it yet, let their minds be blown by the Antikythera mechanism.
Eh, you know. Same thing as fishing - catch and release. :)
It's entirely possible that the base metal in the alloy has leached out of the surfaces over time, giving it a rough texture. But casts can have...
A timely post! I was trying to think of an appropriate coin, then it came to me: Sol and his high priest, duh. :) Denarius of Elagabalus... [ATTACH]
Here's Mars advancing right, holding spear and trophy, on a denarius of Severus Alexander... [ATTACH]
Nice coins everyone. I always enjoy a Gallienus thread. I don't have Mars from this emperor, but I recently came across a VERY nice Fortuna...
It's probably the most common of all Roman types. You can do much better, grade-wise, for very little money. If I were you, I'd set my sights a...
I say unofficial on bust style. The style on the reverses can vary widely, but the official coins are remarkably homogeneous when it comes to the...
They do like they just had a spat, lol, particularly because of Agrippa's rather stern countenance. "I do all the work, and you get the laurels,...
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