I'm glad the restrictions weren't extended but hate that the MOU exists in any form regarding coins. Coins are not "cultural heritage". They are...
The Vegas phone number alone wouldn't necessarily be worrisome if it is a cell phone. Many people no longer have land lines and since most people...
Large bronze provincial, coiled serpent... think Thrace (Pautalia) and Moesia Inferior (Marcianopolis). Wildwinds is a fantastic resource but my...
"I don't have a means of transportation so buyer would need to pick up," says the guy with the coins. Deal or not, I would never go to a...
That looks like a site! I'm looking forward to browsing it. Thanks for posting.
Wow, that is a remarkably detailed portrait! Lovely :)
Fantastic!! Looks like you had a very successful trip :)
The translation, per Google Translate + a few additional individually translated words and abbreviations: ROMAN EMPIRE Faustina Minor (147-176)...
Thanks :) Hmm. Your star does look "crabby" (or spidery, or tick-y :D) because of the direction of the rays, but other issues I've looked at are...
As I understand it, proto-contorniates were by definition hammered around the edges to produce the raised rims. Filing of the edges, decorative...
That's a wonderfully strange object! It's nice to see pictures of this from so many angles. I never fully understood the shape of Medoraman's...
I've kept an eye out for one of these since seeing Doug's example in 2014. [IMG] BRUTTIUM, the Brettii 216-214 BCE Æ quartuncia, 13.5mm, 2.06 g...
I didn't either, although I've seen it done in preparation for setting coins in a bezel. Perhaps the OP coin was destined for such a fate?...
Since this thread already resembles a fractal*, here's another tangent-- a very cool hippocamp quadriga: [IMG] PHOENICIA, Berytos 1st century...
Me, which is why I commemorated the occasion with the purchase of this lovely crab hat :D
I'm feeling like a sea goddess today :D
Nice hippocamp, Steve-O (and JA)! The type is perpetually on the list... the list which contains roughly 10,000x more coins than I can afford :D
Great quartet!! I love provincials :)
I did not know about that service, thanks!
I'm waiting on the flax to ripen before threshing and spinning the thread. Meanwhile, I have to build a loom. :D
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