Drat! That's a beauty. Although there were many overvalued and unsold coins today, there were also many which were highly desirable and brought...
Thanks, Erin! My wish-list is full of coins at the moment but I do recall seeing a very nice sling bullet recently. Hopefully I put it on the...
That was your coin in today's auction?
I have no sling bullets, no fibulae, no scarabs :(. I like them, though!
Nice! Thanks for the link. The third picture is not the Caribbean though, it is the Atlantic over the Bahamas. Crooked Island is at the...
I think that's his right wing. I mistakenly erased it when making the cut-out image. Imagining it as a hand is definitely funnier :D "Whaaaat?!...
Yes, £46,000. It's a beauty!!
Beautiful pickup, @Paul M.! Like @chrsmat71, I too suffer from hypopiusism, at least for Imperial issues. Very sad since he's such an admirable...
Coincidentally, there was one of the general type in today's Roma auction: [IMG] Severus Alexander Æ34 of Amasia, Pontus. Dated CY 234=AD...
I don't know who the winner was but it is definitely a Clio-league coin! Congrats? To clarify, I was not a bidder on this coin. I could only...
Yeah, it's not really funny, just fun. I've been pining for this coin since the catalog was first published. Maybe I can find the owner and...
This one sold in Roma today. It was estimated far higher than I could conceivably go and it realized £57,500 (with exchange rate, BP, etc......
They top out near ~48-49 mm and ~100 gm. My biggest: [IMG] EGYPT. Ptolemy II Philadelphus 285-246 BCE AE48 mm, 91.8 gm Obv: laureate head of...
That's one of the many great things about ancient coin collecting: no rigidly defined sets! Make up your own :).
Wonderful coins, everybody! Ptolemy I coins are always high on my list-- the OP portrait coin type in particular. One of these days...
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