Hmm, maybe Chris and Bing are right. The Castulo reverse looks good but the obverse hairstyle looks wrong (longer hair on the OP coin). The plot...
I agree-- it looks Nabataean. The reverse looks like an off-center crossed cornucopia, rotated slightly clockwise. Or, perhaps it's a Malichus...
That style of anchor is typical of Seleukid coins, and elephants are common on those. Go to CNG's archives and search for "Seleukid, anchor,...
What a wonderfully detailed example, @Andres2! Hadrian's Travel Series is a wonderful thing to collect. At the moment I only have two but...
Are you sure you can't scroll to see the third choice? When I made my first quiz some people didn't see all of the choices due to the size of the...
Unfortunately I have a new "one that got away" to add. I just lost it a few minutes ago, having bid hard and much higher than intended, so at...
These Falling Horsemen types have really grown on me. Adding one to the endless list :)
I need to start browsing for a nice Fallen Horseman, if you folks haven't bought them all already :D
There are a handful of Celtic coins I'd eventually like to buy. An imitation Philip II tetradrachm like yours is on the list :) At the moment I...
1283 :) The alchemist question was particularly funny :D I missed one but your answer key must be wrong. Check the answer to the "lawyer"...
For the same reason Roman coin legends abbreviate Augustus as AVG.
Looks like a winner to me!
I understand your disappointment but none of this history makes it more likely that the coins are authentic. :(
Good quiz! Some questions were straightforward (identify the emperor) and some required another layer or two of thinking. I missed a couple.
As Doug hinted at, Heritage simply made a listing error with this coin and left a zero (or more) off the estimate or opening bid. It may not look...
At a glance, they all appear to be modern reproductions.
You selected a time limit for answering each question. The points awarded for each correct answer go down quickly as the clock ticks. A perfect...
I just took it again and Nero and Domitian are still wrong.
Fun quiz! But... I think you mixed up the answers for questions 1 and 4. I'm certain they are who I think they are but I missed those two...
I'm not so sure about that... Sometimes I can discern legends better in smaller pictures. When enlarged too much, surface irregularities can...
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