I love the coin, Mikey, and I think you got a good deal on it. Sometimes coins just fly under everybody else's radar, or everybody else is busy...
Of course, these are not the most exciting types in the world - they're not exactly Zeus hurling a thunderbolt while Pegasus flies over a roiling...
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Nice gifs!
Looking good. You've got better detail on those than you get out of most uncleaned ancients. Looks like you should be able to attribute them all.
Great cherry-picking!
Yeah, I'd like to see the stuff you guys are talking about.
Yes, which is odd, as the Romans were, in general, willing to appropriate foreign gods into their pantheon without too much wrangling. But his...
Great thread with many super coins! I'll add this provincial of Nicaea that arrived last week. These legionary standard types on the bronzes of...
Hello friends, here is a set of lovely and interesting coins that I’m offering well below retail - 4 Roman Imperials, 3 Provincials, and 2 Greeks...
The image is a scan, and scans always make coins look like crap. I predict you will be very pleasantly surprised when you get it. And I think you...
I haven't looked at enough Emesa mint coins to differentiate by style, but my thinking is exactly opposite. The obverse looks imitative, the...
This is a perfect example of why collectors of ancients don't use the grade AU. If you zoom in on that coin, you'll see a thin layer of dirt here...
Wow, cool stuff. We are simpatico - about the only thing that interests me other than ancients are various kids of token coinage, mostly HTT's and...
These are all easily attributable, but since I don't have the time to do it at the moment, I'll let you have the fun. Just know that the word...
Red_spork and medorman have said it well. I would add that in the realm of moderns, grade seems to be a priority, whereas in ancients, we are...
I can only imagine what someone would have thought, coming across a skeleton of Tyrannosaurus or similar, before the days of geology and biology....
Here's an interesting tidbit from wiki... Adrienne Mayor, a classical folklorist, proposes that the griffin was an ancient misconception derived...
Well I finally got an answer on this coin, which demonstrates that it's always possible to turn up a new variety or type in the world of ancients....
WOW, fantastic haul! :woot: You can't buy too many coins. It's impossible.
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