If you're interested in Roman gold, you should familiarize yourself with the Aureus and Solidus. If there is a particular coin you are interested...
I will remember this joke and torture my children with it.
Hold on, I also have this Seleucid ae of Tyre, which someone at FORVM was kind enough to ID for me... Seleucid Kingdom, Antiochus III...
A big thank you to my S.S. for sending me two coins, a denarius of Caracalla and a soldiers/standard ae of Constantine II. This was a fun project...
I would very much like to collect more Phoenician. So far, I have only one coin, of Arados, which is currently being treated for bronze disease,...
Good stuff, everyone. I received two nice coins which I'll post tomorrow - I'm too tired to edit pics at the moment.
I thought of that, but it sounds messy.
I was going to mention the gold Kennedy, but then I realized that coin has a higher melt value than Kim Kardashian. This guy calculated the value...
Another nice choice, Gil. Scarcer emperor, good detail on the coin.
That's an insanely beautiful coin!
Well, the mouth story is largely apocryphal - I'd like to see some scholarship on that. But it does make a certain amount of sense if you image...
I love seeing your coins in a composite like that, TIF. I have to say that it really isn't like going to a museum, though. Seeing coins in a...
I'd definitely take that coin for $9 any day of the week! It's got the detail of a $20 coin.
Yes, 0.4g makes it a 1/32 Shekel. 'Abd'ashtart I struck some tetradrachms on the Attic standard, but other than that, all Phoenician silver is...
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