I might have said, "How the heck did they get that." :oops:
Is this a personification of Concordia, or some other deity? And is that some sort of headgear, or a structure in the background?
Love the rostral column and owl detail!
Lovely coin, great style! And you're quite right - the scratches are inconsequential.
What is the typical fineness of these coins? Because billon certainly can corrode like that.
Well, maybe not the most exciting of collecting pursuits (when it comes to the purely geometric types anyway), but I've always found the varieties...
The issue of attribution is sometimes complicated by the fact that the descriptions in catalogs are incorrect. I've run up against this a few...
There are many issues of the emperor-dragging-captive types from the Valentinian Dynasty. I collected this coin of Valens because it has one of...
What a great example, Z! I also like the trophy/captives types. Does anyone know when the design first appears on RR coinage? I'm always on the...
Well, it's their fault for not being on the forum 24/7 and reading every single post.
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I'll pick Tom's brain at the next show and report back to you.
Interesting that you post barbarous minimae. I believe I've collected one by pure chance - it came as part of a larger lot. It apparently imitates...
Collectors of moderns like to talk about condition rarities. It's not something we think about often, but I don't think we could overstate just...
I can only add to the chorus of Great Coin! I'm fairly certain the Axumites were the first to invent bimetallic coins. I've never seen anything of...
That's what I call my wife, lol.
Have ya got any of them aes grave?
I thought maybe you were partying it up with your good mate the Great Leader... [ATTACH]
This place never gets dull, lol.
Ok. WHY would you go to North Korea??
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