WOW! The elephants must have been in charge of coin design that year :D
Now I think it could be a piggohipporhinobearophant. That die engraver must've been drunk, and/or undertraveled :D
Here's one of many that I lost. I wanted this coin because of the utterly ridiculous animal. In books it is called an elephant, but it is really...
Those are some mighty skinny elephants ;) Oh-- you were replying to my posting of lot 155, not Doug's elephant quadriga :D
Great coins, Oki! I wondered if you had snagged the panther :)
lot 153-- the hammer for that one was pretty ridiculous given the commonness and condition. lot 155-- very nice coin but the pedigree made it $$$...
I think lead is a common alloy component in many late Roman bronzes.
Other Hadrians I tried for: lot 144, elephant quadriga drachm, although I was only tossing in a token bid. lot 150, panther obol. There was...
Yep, that was one I also bid on. I dropped out two increments before the hammer so the immediate underbidder was someone else. Congrats-- having...
Congrats on the Dattari, @Okidoki! How many did you bid on? I bid on 17 Dattaris yesterday (including 3 Hadrians, didn't win them) and only won...
I agree-- it's an uneven strike. The areas with few details didn't have enough metal to fill the dies recesses. I'd be happy to have this coin...
"Potin" seems to be a vague term meaning "pot metal": base metal with little to no silver. As Mat has pointed out many times, these "mutt" metals...
Thanks :) I did pick up a couple of former McCabes soon after that post but I'm always on the lookout for interesting Republicans formerly owned...
I'll definitely order it today! Trying to find things in the textless Savio volume is making me crosseyed :D
I do not have the 1901 Dattari. I access it online, which is cumbersome.
It is indeed a challenging book to use, with its chaotic arrangement and faded pictures (they are photographs of pencil rubbings of plaster...
Yeah, I won a few but they were also-rans on my target list. I bid on 17 coins and won 3. I'm happy to have a few ex-Dattaris but am sad to have...
@Topcat7, that really is an interesting reverse-- congrats on the find :) And Steve-O, your Maxentius follis is fantastic!
@paschka, he meant where is your song or music video. This is a fun thread where we post a coin and a song we like, or a song that somehow...
[MEDIA] (I knew the Ancient Picture the Poster thread would come in handy :D)
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