I'd love to include some callipygian posts, but that might be too cheeky for the mods.
Let's see, September baby means you were conceived in December - I'm guessing your parents were celebrating Saturnalia?
Happy Birthday JW! Many returns. If only you were Jesus, today would be Christmas.
Same as TIF. Acetone will not damage an authentic patina and it does a good job of removing PVC residue and other gunk. However - it will remove...
It seems that for most of Gallienus' Rome issues, the die-cutting maintained a rather high standard. It's the flan-preparation and striking that...
Thanks Ken!
I know from personal experience that it's very difficult to photograph coins in a slab, but from what I can see it's a lovely specimen. As long as...
OP coin came in last week, but I only had a chance to image it today. I'm quite pleased with the hard-struck reverse. Probably the seller's angled...
Steve knows from rocks.
I have a crusty coin with confronted busts from Marcianopolis myself... [ATTACH] Moesia, Markianopolis, Philip I and Otacilia Severa AE...
The only coin this resembles (that I know of) is a certain bronze of the Gaulish Remi tribe. But that type has triple jugate busts with biga left,...
This.
Are we arguing about making a thread or are we making a thread? :) As small as Greek silver gets, 0.17g. [ATTACH]
Yup, I watched the bidding on that coin and saw that someone got a real bargain on it. I'm glad it was one of our CT family.
It's fine. The missing I is struck-through - not uncommon. The scratches are from cleaning or circulation. There's a weak strike on the obverse,...
You didn't break any forum rules that I know of. But we've had this discussion before and decided against it for the reasons TIF posted.
Beautiful!
Roman Provincial, but Greek enough. Tyre, Trajan, Melqart... [ATTACH]
There was an article about it a few years ago, in the Washington Post, here.
Nice work! The pic of the Vespasian really does the coin justice, and the T. Decius shows the attractive colors of the patina.
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