Wow, that gorgon looks like she ate a really bitter lemon! :yuck: :D Loads of personality! :)
Count me in your little group. An advantage of age :)
I have a bunch of Ptolemy bronzes so I'm rolling in dimples :D Here's one which is interesting because it looks like there is a raised circle...
Very nice, 4to2!! I bought a couple in my first months of collecting, before realizing that a gazillion coins were auctioned every month and that...
Very nice, Mat! Heh. Yep. It ranks right up there with "You have to spend money to save money" :D
Whoa-- both Achille's tendons? That is tough. Long road ahead. Best wishes for a speedy and complication-free recovery :)
I wonder why the wives (and children) of emperors were often engraved as the emperor's face with a female hairstyle? Did the engravers not have...
Yes... welcome, @Hellbent :) I like your avatar picture of Jacques.
I think 4to2ndCentBC was being funny-- trying to get rid of some bidding competition :D.
:wideyed:o_O Very interesting! Thanks for the heads-up.
I have no problem with a 100% markup -- that's common practice. The baffling thing is that a collector could have acquired the coin for a much...
I hope your recovery is speedy and uneventful :) ... @Roman Collector -- great thread title, great coin, great writeup! Lots of food for...
Related to the topic at hand and touching on issues raised in several recent threads, the internet has made researching sales and prices pretty...
Sorry, not gold :( It's a "late Roman bronze" and has been harshly cleaned. I'm not very good with nailing down the precise attribution of coins...
The style of the Greek coin looks reasonably good (Syracuse dekadrachm, unsigned but in the style of the artist/engraver Kimon) but there is a...
It might get more attention on the World coins board (this is the Ancients board). I don't know much about world coins of this era, but here's a...
:wideyed: I'm gobsmacked and greener than the coin with envy :)
It is a very charming provincial!
Here's my first Doug Crumb. Mean ol' Doug cast out this dear boy and I took him in, bless his little heart. :angelic: [ATTACH] Elagabalus AR...
Pretty cool Crummies™ :D That exact c/m isn't in Howgego's book. #602 is a TI CÆ AVGVSTVS. That's the only one that comes close. However......
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