What an interesting post! I'm a bit scared of Nemesis now ("torture wheel"? :eek:) :D Those were some interesting and diverse musical...
Wowie, that's one full-on Flavian mullet! Cool coin :)
Love the lion biga! Nice catch :)
OOOOHHHhhhh... of course you're right, and on the obverse you can clearly see that the Obolos is a fourree :oops:. That negates pretty much...
Looks like it to me. [ATTACH] You mean silver? ... If they are of the same die, and if the Obolos coin is not a fourree (and there's not...
I wish I could snap my fingers and examine the coin in-hand. It looks very interesting! I still have doubts about its nature, not that I'm a...
@SeptimusT, looking at your coin again, are you sure it's a fourree? Could it be an extremely crystalized and brittle denarius (hence the...
:D No, just a little about jewelry-making. Although-- I have made a few vulcanized molds of some ancient coins with the intent of making some...
Thanks for that wonderful anecdote, @Blake Davis! Wouldn't Zeno be surprised to see the current prices of those "careless and inartistic" owl...
Yes, it is. Don't forget about the distortion introduced by the different angles of photography. I think the graffito is on the host coin (the...
It's easier to see and say things in retrospect, but I think the junctions of the devices and fields are not sharp, giving the coin a "soapy"...
Dang it, Z... now I want one too.
By memory, as in the reference books and numbers? Gawd no... my memory for such things is not that good. I look them up the first time and then...
[ATTACH] Spitting into their bosom? Yuck! I had to look that up to see what it was all about. Apparently it was done to ward off bad luck or...
Wow, John. That's an impressive array!
:p :D Did your man create a deity from scratch, one who would grow in attributes and popularity, and who for centuries would be venerated far...
I agree that your coin seems likely to be from early in Domitian's reign, before the provinces became aware of the Flavian Mullet :yack:. She...
@Pickin and Grinin, I see why you were smitten with this coin-- it's fabulous! Finding artistic, well-struck, and relatively well-preserved...
Well, actually those are from the auction house, cropped. Their imaging through plastic is much better than Heritage's.
What a jumbo flan! The first coin in particular is very appealing. I'd like to get a "plague follis" of Justinian (like the Justinian year 15...
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