That Bing is starting to piss me off. :mad:
Yeah, that coin's a bit rough, Bing. But hey, if it's almost a freebie, so what? Thanks for the write-up as well. I have yet to collect anything...
Aye aye, captain. It can be my new holy grail. :)
It's in the right place. On the Emperor/Concordia types it's in the middle of the field. On other types, you find marks split between the right...
Yeah, but you're as unpredictable as the rest of us, even more so, actually. You can trust me to buy a bunch of scraggly Nabataeans, but who knows...
Nice coin, VK! The detail is light, but it's all there. I much prefer a coin like that to one where the detail is strong in a few places and...
Size and style. Unfortunately the bottom of the reverse is missing on account of the double-strike, so we're lacking an important piece of...
I think the missing X has to do with a weak strike. That whole corner around 7 o'clock is weak. What's more interesting to me is the officina...
If I was one of mint's slaves, I would definitely try to get my hands on some alcohol! Here's a Diocletian with double-struck reverse......
Great coin for the price, Bing!
BTW, did you notice the retrograde N in your mint mark? It's one of those engraving errors that us ancient coin nerds find so interesting. Edit:...
Compare yours to another Antioch mint coin. This a typical "Rusty Roman" - except that it's not rust, just ancient dirt. This coin has was just...
Lol, I doubt it. What you've got there is a characteristic example of the Syrian Red desert patina, found on many Eastern mint coins, and...
You may have discovered that we are an odd bunch here at CT. None of us would denigrate the importance of researching the market value of the...
Yes, demand is everything when it comes to market value. Collectors just don't seem to care much for the coinage of Arabia Bostra, which is fine...
I have one lonely Pontic bronze to share, which I wasn't even looking to collect, but I stumbled across it at BBA at a price I couldn't refuse....
Sounds like apocryphal elaboration to me. If Alexander the Great had turned out to be Alexander the Loser, we might be reading a legend about...
My best guess is Elagabalus, Judaea, Aelia Capitolina (Meshorer, Aelia 113). But really, this coin may be too worn to identify.
Speaking of which, the snake in the cista mystica is essentially a phallic symbol, although it has various connotations. Here's the numiswiki...
Great coin! The bust of Apollo is particularly good - strong and expressive.
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