Well, there's the famous quote that there are no stupid questions: stupid people don't ask questions! The top end of the ancients grading scale is...
This is a type I haven't acquired yet, only because I'm a cheapskate and mostly refuse to pay retail for anything but my Levantine stuff. I do...
Me too. It was so much simpler with four elements.
You really do need to check out Ancient Joe's collection and essays. Can I join the physics club? My undergraduate degree is in physics. :vulcan:
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Has to be the ever-popular Silk Road then.
Places Marco Polo visited? Although the coins would have been long out of circulation by his time, except for maybe the Chinese cash.
Here's a type from Kroton that I don't think anyone on the forum owns, so I'll post a CNG coin - with a heron. CNG 72 Lot 151 [ATTACH]
I was hoping to see that diorama again, lol. I'll start with my four horsemen of Phillip II, Macedonian Kingdom... [ATTACH]
Alisdair Menzies recently translated this book, and it's available on Amazon in its inexpensive paperback edition here. When he first published...
They're coins! Thank you, thank you very much. :) I don't know, but there seems to be a Near-Eastern ball game going on, except the Chinese coin...
The really common types can certainly get very tedious. We could add falling horsemen to the list as well, and the Rome and Constantinople...
A very nice eclectic mix!
I think you're right on the Constantine II of Trier, 504. It can't be anything else. You get your choice of P and S officinae, and it does look...
Here is a page from Bruck that gives you most of the PROVIDENTIA AVGG and CAESS types. Things to look for when you're shopping campgates. [ATTACH]
Nice! Well, there was probably a hoard discovery after RIC VII went to print. It's ancient coin collecting after all - rare coins can turn into...
Good stuff, and nice clear pics!
It's not at all humble. That variety is very scarce, and you have a great example.
Nice! Looks like B to me - only two officinae issued this series. Our coins are the common ones. Two more series after that had combinations of...
Don't forget we have horses coming up tomorrow in the animals thread. That's going to be a stampede.
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