I'm glad to hear you say it. Suffice it to say that I'm going to keep a close eye on this one for a few months to be sure nothing is growing.
Thanks for the clarification. Well, I certainly wouldn't pay $50 for it, but each to his own. I would love to metal detect something like it,...
OK, it's not the big, bad drachm that Zumbly just posted, but it is my first foray onto the avenue of Alexandrian potin tets: a very common type...
That is one big, gorgeous lump of a coin, Z. Nice find. I've taken a very modest step in collecting some Alexandrian tets recently, which I'll...
Why 8 though? Maxentius only ruled for 6 years. I think it's clear that QQ stands for quinquennalia and Max was being different by using it as a...
Yes, that's a good question. Why not simply VOT V, as found on so many other coins commemorating vota?
Guesstimation is the name of the game. For starters, we don't know what these coins were called. The term "follis" was adopted by numismatists for...
Canadian archeology. [ATTACH]
1877 is a common date for Seated dimes, so you would need one in a rather high grade to be worth something. This one was holed and counter-stamped...
There are examples of this type that have portraits which correspond to neither Obodas nor Aretas. The chin is stronger, and the nose is quite...
Wow, that's a beautiful set of old bills, Steve. Well-done!
This is a bit of a long read, but Strabo's account of Syllaeus' misdirection of the Romans is quite intriguing. The interpolations in blue come...
Here's a coin I first spotted two years ago, but at the time, I didn't have the opportunity to acquire it. I was delighted to find it back on the...
My copy of Meshorer had a similar aroma, a combination of grassy notes with a tang of acids and a hint of vanilla over an underlying mustiness.
A few months ago I came across an anonymous Roman quadrans that had the letters AU punched into it. Doug Smith suggested the coin may have been...
I recently came across this respectable IHC for cheap... [ATTACH] As far as ancients go, I can never pick a favorite. They're all my favorites,...
Some European sources also transliterate his name as "Bala" so make sure you include that variation in your searches. You'll get a bunch of...
[ATTACH] My proudest achievement this year, as far as Nabataeans go, is a more-or-less complete type set of the bronze coins of Rabbel II (70 AD...
Great coin, Z. I agree that the portrait is unusually handsome for Nero.
Great find, Gil. It's exactly the sort of coin that interests me as well.
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