What a nice drachm!! It is listed in Emmett: 1017.16, R1 "Nilus seated left on rock, hippopotamus below"
I'm reading the article now, trying to make sense of the often nonsensical interpretation by Google Translate. The author did (or had done) a...
I don't believe it is just part of the laurel wreath. Embellishments of laurel wreaths were apparently not unknown. I don't yet have an opinion...
The identity of the "horn" is unknown but in 1997 a German numismatist theorized that it was a symbol of potency (the penis of a bull), probably...
Here are the Dattari-Savio plate coins from my half of the lot. [ATTACH] EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius AE drachm, regnal year 18 (CE 154/5)...
[ATTACH] [IMG] ROMAN REPUBLIC, Moneyer Q. Crepereius M.f. Rocus. 69 BCE. AR serrate denarius [IMG] SICILY, Syracuse. Dionysius I. 400-335...
Nice work, Ed!
OMG, Chris!! Congrats on your fabulous new coin! Orfew-- what an wonderful act of generosity :)
Notice that Victory is trying to hand him a razor.
I'm a woman and really should have no say in how and if a man allows his facial hair to grow, but NO. Just, NO to neck beards. That is all.
Then by the etymological definition, should cast coins be excluded from "coin"dom? We could debate the definition of "coin" endlessly. I think...
walk into a bar... Okay they didn't but feel free to devise a punch line :D. This fun little coin feeds my hippocamp addiction :joyful: The...
Another nice very nice one, Sallent! @DUPONDII-- :wideyed: Wow! (especially the first one) Doug, for cryin' out loud please stop encouraging...
True. We could debate this all night and all month... But let's not :D. It's just semantics. I like coins (my definition of coins), dolphin...
:oops::shy: You're going to inflate my ego with talk like that, but thanks :)
That's why I prefer my own definition, immediately preceding the Webster quote, intentionally omitting mention of a mark of value :).
OMG, an non-smoothed non-tooled Bosporus bronze! How rare and refreshing!! I love it :) (the envelope pictured beside the coin belongs to a...
I should have shown the coins in my previous post. D'oh :oops: [IMG] Sicily, Syracuse. Second Democracy c. 425 BCE Æ tetras, 13 mm, 1.9 gm Obv:...
With that broad definition, cowrie shells and other such items could be considered coins. I don't consider those to be "coins". I agree with...
I don't have one of those yet :(. I do have other oddball snake transports and will post them later.
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