I'd be inclined to ren wax this coin if it were mine, just for the added protection.
Great coin, Ice! A Domna arrived on my doorstep today as well... [ATTACH]
What do the inscriptions mean?
Man, I love that Abgar the Conehead coin. Outstanding!
Yeah, but I do it anyway just to call bullshit.
Care to tell us who it is? For whatever reason, I got no such notification. Edit: never mind, I found him - Emporium Hamburg, yes? Pricey is...
If it came off that easily it was dirt, plain and simple.
Nice find, VK, and TIF: you got too much time on your hands, sister. :)
I'm a closet collector of Gordian III. I know they're a dime-a-dozen, but I like them. I won't post them all, just the three I collected last...
It is surprising. It's not that they couldn't have made coins of higher artistry, but they seemed to have viewed coinage as a mostly utilitarian...
Not necessarily. "Sister" was a title in the royal court. But it is possible.
9 BC to 40 AD are the dates of Aretas IV's rule. This particular type was minted in his last year, 39/40 AD, and it continued through the reigns...
Who the heck were the Nabataeans?
That's not a sestertius, it's a tetradrachm of Alexandria, if I'm not mistaken.
Less talk, more dioramas. :p
I think you mean LOW. These coins are also an important part of ancient numismatics. Are they pretty? Hell no, but they are intriguing. Here's my...
Wow, one of the best engravings I've seen on this series. This coin is going to make medoraman drool.
It looks like the ancient version of CoinDozer.
I'll be the odd man out and say I like it. I couldn't tell what it was from the first pic - I thought perhaps an AE denarius with bronze disease....
The chocolate Obama coins make me chuckle in a non-PC kind of way, lol.
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