I own a man-faced bull coin, but I have never associated it with a river god. [ATTACH] GELA, SICILY AR Litra OBV: Naked horseman galloping left...
@ancientnut and @Ancientnoob you both have presented beautiful coins. I just looked through my catalog, and none of my river god coins compare.
Yes. Many coins will be referred to as "AE__" (insert diameter, i.e., AE 19). However, in LRBs, coins are divided into four categories: Ae 1,...
I'm not a big fan. I much prefer the artistry of earlier coinage. Sorry.
@ancientnut I can adopt those.....
Nice coin and good portrait. Here are a couple of mine: [ATTACH] VALENTINIAN I AE3 OBVERSE: D N VALENTINIANVS P F AVG, diademed, draped &...
Well, heck, you know them Gauls. They always have a big head over something.
Thanks to all for the compliments. I just want to show the artistry of even the severed head. Notice how M. Sergius is shown holding his sword...
No kidding!
Both look good to me, but if you say the color of the new shoot is closest to the actual coin, I'll pick that one. ;)
I like your story better JA. Much more interesting.
That's a wonderful SS Doug and here is the one you sold me thru JA"s auction just for comparison. [ATTACH] That Julia Domna is intriguing as...
Yeah. It does look the same. A few years later [ATTACH]
Me too. Oh wait, I was still in Germany on my first tour. Sorry for the interruption. Carry on.
@ancientnut you make me sick!! You and your beautiful coins (but hey, I'll take one of each)
I just received a couple of RR coins in Saturday's post and this is just one of them. It caught my eye because Roma seems to have an extreme Roman...
Those all look to be be in high grade JA, especially that last coin. But my favorite is the Philip I. Gotta love dem lions (and of course I am a...
Sorry @Marinho, I do not recognize it at all.
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I've been wanting one of these, but just never seem to pull that proverbial trigger. Like you, the proportion of silver to bronze is way out of...
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