Wow, that's a righteous coin, in terms of portrait and overall appeal of the obverse :) As for the grade, who cares. Your eyeballs tell you what...
According to the website CoinsOfRomanEgypt, by Diocletian's reign there was less than 1% silver in these tetradrachms.
G&M auction 236, lot 84; unsold at opening bid of 280 EUR, 7 March 2016 At first I thought there were new details in the drapery (on the slabbed...
Oh, duh. I tried a different spelling (Pyrrhos) and found some examples. From CNG's archives: [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] I think the OP coin...
I'm not familiar enough with the type to know if the reverse style jibes with authentic examples but at first glance the reverse style just looks...
Thanks, Steve-O! I snuck it in to someone else's thread a couple of years ago and never got around to making a dedicated post. It's a very cool...
When I turned 16 I took a job in a pet store. We had dozens of freshwater aquariums and there were many African cichlids. It's been more than 35...
I know nothing about Mongol coins but it would be pretty cool to have something from Genghis Khan :) Similar coins found online are not...
Maybe this? https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2538985 [IMG] GERMAN COINS AND MEDALS AND OTHERS THE COLLECTION ERNST OTTO HORN, PART III...
!! Wow. That's a big decision. It sounds well-considered. I hope the auctions go well for you :)
Hmm, I want one of those too. Bull/boar? Yes please!
I acquired this nice Phokis triobol in the last CNG auction. The type had languished on my buy list for a while and this one fit my requirements...
Wow, I'm glad they missed the ancients!
Wonderful coin, @Carthago and all! I don't have any Republican pantheistic deities but will happily sneak in few syncretic Provincials :D A...
^^^ Exactly, and that is great! CoinTalk Ancients is for the fun and social aspects of collecting; Forvm aspires to be more scholarly. It's...
nymph & octopus [IMG] Sicily, Syracuse. Dionysios I 390 BCE Æ tetras, 14 mm, 1.8 gm Obv: head of nymph facing slightly left, wearing necklace Rev:...
Welcome to CoinTalk Ancients, @featherz! I've admired many of your interesting coins on Forvm :)
I'll be darned. I would have bet it wasn't from Pergamon. Nice work, Z!
I think you're looking in the wrong city. Try searching based on the readable legends.
Whoops, I forgot to include this Severan provincial in my prior post. The obverse has some issues but the reverse is a fantastic rendering of...
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