A very distinctive type - the zebu is great, and the repeated arrow design is wonderful.
Yes, many of them do look exactly like Hermes' money bag, others have the simple triangular shape.
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Great set of coins!
Yes of course, there had to be some aspect to Uberitas that other abundance gods were missing, at least to some of the population. I just don't...
You can get cheapo reproductions of ancient coins. Here's a google page, sorted by price... Various Reproductions
Major glitch in the matrix. I gave up trying to do anything on eBay today.
I wanted to comment further on this coin but didn't have the time earlier. The student of Roman mythology can ask the question, "Who is Uberitas,...
Very nice additions indeed! That one and only bracteate that I handled recently certainly did seem fragile. Spink had it delivered in a jewelry...
IMP TRAIANVS DECIVS AVG is the obverse legend.
The "other" Trajan: Decius. :)
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The obverse imitates a follis of Constantine, the reverse a type of Judaean prutah. I've seen these posted before from time to time - I have no...
It's a modern fantasy piece.
My best is a common VRBS ROMA type, nothing fancy, but very nice details... [ATTACH]
Heh, lol.
Agreed. I only extended the deadline a bit because I needed one more participant, but the 29th is ok if anyone else wants to PM me.
Thanks Bing - that's mighty generous. I'll keep that in my back pocket.
It's all quite possible, but with only one example, it's also conjectural in the extreme. I would need many more examples, documented with...
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