I was seven when that song was released and remember it well-- the song was so funny and weird. Yodeling rockers, really?! A few years later...
Definitely! In general, I prefer Provincials because of their variety. The reverses are usually something specific or meaningful to the city or...
Funny, I was just looking at this old thread a few hours ago while searching for a particular coin :)
MOESIA INFERIOR, Nicopolis ad Istrum. Macrinus AD 217-218, Statius Longinus, consular legate Obv: Laureate bust right, slight drapery on left...
I think it is. Do you want me to post the full attribution, or do you want to try to find it yourself?
Very nice! I think someone else here also has a left-facing Syrian tetradrachm of Elagabalus. @Ancientnoob, maybe?
Well, I'll be darned. At a casual glance I assumed the reverse figure was Jupiter but that is indeed a spear rather than thunderbolt. Great...
I'll be on that wagon with you very soon.
I'll try later. Right now I'm trying, none too successfully, to spend my money in the CNG and G&M auctions :D. It's a marathon auction week!
Interesting information about a hoard of Faustina II bronzes, from one of the Gerhard Rohde listings: "This coin is part of a large hoard...
I agree with John: provincial of Faustina, probably Faustina II. The reverse appears to be a female deity or personification, standing right,...
That's a very nice triens-- in much better condition that most I've seen in recent auctions. Congrats :) Here's a Roman victoriatus from the...
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