I second Doug's comment. Sometimes you have to settle for a less-than-perfect coin to acquire a particular variety. This one is outstanding in all...
Lol, Steve! I love your humorous imagery - I wouldn't have half as much fun on this forum if you ever left.
My guess is that the bronze coinage took care of the small change issue. It's hard to image how some of the tiniest fractional silver was handled...
Anecdote: Ptolemy I was an avid supporter of Euclid's work, but found the Elements too difficult to understand. Countless high-school students...
There's a famous bust of Ptolemy I at the Louvre, and he certainly did have a Greek nose, but the portraits on the coins seem very stylized to me....
Sort of like our dead president coinage.
I like it very much. You'd have to be pretty single-minded to collect in only one field when it comes to ancients. There are just too many...
It looks terrible - soft, mushy devices, the fabric is all wrong, and I'm pretty sure I see a seam at the edge in some of the pics.
Great portrait, ro, and very interesting reverse - nice find! Now stop chewing on your coins! :p
Yes, and another coin from Trier. Coincidence?
It's a poorly cast fake if I ever saw one.
I don't know if he has a vcoins store, Eric. He goes by Dionysos on this forum, with an eBay store - coin.ages.
This is precisely what fascinates me about coin collecting - having a direct connection to ancient history by owning tangible metallic bits of it....
Mikey said it. That galley is superb! You could almost reconstruct the boat from that engraving.
By the way, a few days ago, May 11, marked the 1685th anniversary of Constantinople's dedication in AD 330 as the new Roman capitol, by...
Thanks guys. Within a week, I have acquired two of these, the earlier coin being this one of Alexandria. Today's "high-end" version cost ten times...
I wonder if all the mints were silvering these coins, and if so, were they using the same techniques? For instance, I've never seen a silvered...
I'm not sure if all of these Cons and Roma commems were silvered, but in my limited collecting experience, they seem rare. Perhaps the silvering...
Sweet coin, JB! Just beautiful.
That coin has wonderful character!
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