Naturally if you're going to make a video, you're going to compile your best shots rather than your bloopers. The point is we've come to think of...
This post isn't directly related to numismatics, but since the bow and arrow are featured on many ancient types, I thought you folks would be...
It's Apollo seated on omphalos. The beta is either a monogram or control mark. You could search wildwinds for all the Seleucid kings named...
He looks like he just tried a lemon for the first time.
I have an appalling lack of flora in my collection, but here's a plate of random Roman silver, two of which are ants of Gordian III, so sort-of on...
Interesting coin, and lovely grade! It makes you wonder how many provincials are floating around that haven't gotten into the books...
Very intense bust on that last coin, Q. Beautiful!
Lovely coins, one and all!
You can find some very distinctive busts on these barbarous radiates, and your coin is a good example.
Very nice! I appreciate the write-up as I know nothing of these coins, but I've almost pulled the trigger on a few. So do the 12 rays mean regnal...
Yes, Alexander the Great, club and bow series.
Steve, those coins look perfectly excellent to me. I realize that waxy coins are tough to photograph, but I imagine they look great in hand. I...
Great! Thank you. I don't have time to read today, but I've downloaded both and look forward to giving them a long, slow study.
Beautiful coin, John! Well, if you insist, here's my head-of-Sol version, again. This was a $15 eBay score. I guess these coins are so common that...
Congratulations on the acquisition! I find this coinage more and more interesting, so the link to the academia article is particularly useful - it...
I type the Greek into a Word document using the insert symbol function, then copy it and paste into the forum post. There's got to be a better...
It looks perfectly authentic to me.
It's O - he just left it out of the attribution. In the Provincial Greek/Roman mishmash, IVLIA gets spelled IOVΛIA. And the second word is ΔO-MNA,...
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I've used it on coins that I've previously treated for BD. Otherwise, if the coin looks good, no need to fix what ain't broke.
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