Can't disagree with you there :D. Well... your photo skills aren't that bad but apparently your photo editing skills are nonexistent :D. Here...
That's a very fun group. The Marcus Aurelius caught my eye first. Here's a similar coin in CNG's archives if you want to copy the attribution.
What a great score! I love coins with unusual deities. Phoenicia issued a bunch of very interesting coins and I have several (the "Dido...
A very nice group :). The two quaestors reverse of the L. Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus and Q. Servilius Caepio tickles me. It looks like they're...
Where to list these autonomous/pseudo-autonomous issues is tricky. I want to tuck everything into a tidy category but that isn't always...
I used rubbing alcohol because I couldn't find my bottle of distilled water. I've used it before on Egyptian tetradrachms when I had a batch of...
I quickly rinsed the Hadrian in alcohol this morning and did a quick reshoot before work. Some but not all of the powdery red stuff came off....
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Thankfully, Okidoki already had one of these because I was very happy to welcome this coin to my hoard of Alexandrians :) [ATTACH] EGYPT,...
I'm looking forward to my signed copy and to the future volumes!
Neato OP coin! I'd not noticed that some of these have the king and queen as a fire altar attendants! It definitely adds interest.
I'm not a psychiatrist but based on the presented story it is possible that he had paranoid schizophrenia despite the apparently relatively late...
Nice writeup! This is the type of information and presentation that greatly enhances my interest in certain coins. As for the medical nature of...
Congratulations on another fabulous find, David! It sure is fun watching you work on your collection :)
Mine does when I've had too much coffee :D
I am not a knowledgable collector of Byzantines but I don't think more magnification is necessary. The fabric is wrong, the patina is wrong, the...
I love these Velian coins! This is among the first individual ancient coins I bought: [IMG] LUCANIA, Velia 305-290 BCE AR didrachm, 17.5 mm,...
Very interesting, everyone! I particularly like Martin's Postumus Virtus and Victorinus Salus, Roman Collector's Victorinus Salus, Alegandron's...
Mine still doesn't show as shipped but hopefully that status will change today.
Typing computer code on a manual typewriter?! That is so funny! I think that Smith Corona typewriter and I were born the same year :D
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