I need a name for my collection. What do you think of the Paupereo Collection?
Yes Q, very impressive!
I don't care about the gold Kennedy enough to even comment on it, but you sure do have some gorgeous coins, Vic.
Yours looks official. Doug is referring to the barbarous copies of the coin one finds so frequently. It's not clear whether they were accepted as...
By the way, AD is not "After Dead" but Anno Domini.
Here is my example of Tetricus II with Spes reverse, although my reverse legend is SPES AVGG. Yours appears to be SPES PVBLICA, a different...
It's evidently an acquired taste. Years ago I lived a few blocks away from a Greek grocer who always had plenty of fresh goat meat in stock. I...
Nabataea, Rabbel II and Queen Gamilat... [ATTACH]
Some very nice coins, Z and D. Julia Mamaea and Tyche, Arabia Bostra... [ATTACH]
Silver.
This is a coin of Tetricus II, the son of Gallic emperor Tetricus I. The reverse features Spes, the goddess of hope. The coin is called an...
To me, the answer to the "mystery" of incuse designs is blatantly obvious: metal flow. The anvil die had incuse devices that needed to be filled...
I don't mind cleaning a little bit of BD, but that one seems like a lot of work. If you have the patience for it then more power to ya...but I...
A very nice coin indeed! I don't collect Byzantines, but I understand it can be tough to find coins with such clear monograms on both sides.
Well if we're posting US coins, this IHC spoke to me... [ATTACH]
One of the dies was carved in relief. Mystery solved. Where's my grant money?
Nope. That coin is being eaten alive.
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