Excellent plan! Cash out those mass-produced carbon copy moderns and join us on the Fun Side. Bonus: we don't have to have five page threads...
Ooooh, man, that does hurt. It looks authentic to me, and the dies are of fine style and it is well struck and well centered. If it wasn't...
Sounds like a rallying cry to me! C'mon folks, let's give him the information he needs to "sell" this idea to his wife :D...
:eek: I didn't catch that. Hilarious! I guess most wine buyers aren't really going to care. Maybe the whole story is just some marketing...
Yeah, you should get right on that. I'll be waiting by the mailbox :D
I saw a Phliasian coin (like one I own) on a wine label and thought it might be fun to collect coins and the wines they appear on. Soon it became...
This winery is making a big deal out of the reason for the name of their wine but the emperor they reference on the back of the label (Magnus...
LOL! I wonder how many ancient coin collectors have written them about their mistake. You should drop them a note just in case no one has...
That's a pretty fabulous first ancient coin purchase! Yay for your wife being involved in the selection!
Welcome back!! Good golly those are some awesome gifts :)
Very nice! I have this Diocletian Athena reverse for RY 3 and 8 but can't find images right now. Hmm. Instead, here's a new pickup I hadn't...
Modern copy/imitation of a Syracuse dekadrachm, not intended to deceive.
Hmm, that prow really looks nothing like the examples shown on CRRO, does it? o_O
:wideyed:! Looking forward to seeing them :)
Selene: [IMG] EGYPT, Alexandria. Diocletian year 11 (?), CE 294/5 tetradrachm, 19 mm, 7.6 gm Obv: ΔIOKΛHTIANOCCEB; laureate head right Rev:...
Yay! Serapis, solo: [IMG] EGYPT, Alexandria. Hadrian tetradrachm / Serapis, year 4 Serapis, with Cerberus: [IMG] EGYPT, Alexandria. Julia...
Is it S day yet? I'm itchin' to unleash some Serapic syncretic goodness :D
Today we're doing R and S together because there aren't many R cities. Sardes (or at least that's where most sources place this type's origin)...
Sounds good. Which of you is going to send me a dekadrachm to use? :D
Both are nice-- the Sardinia horse especially so :) I have a smattering of Punic coins. Smallest: [ATTACH]IBERIA, Punic Iberia c. 237-209 BCE;...
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