Rats, I'm away from home and don't have prutot pictures on this computer. Tomorrow... There have been some excellent coins posted in the last...
Oooh, nice!!! I want it :D
Congrats on 7500, coinfriend!
Exactly! Usually I sit at the computer and search for prior sales and current offerings. At the show, the number of coins was overwhelming and I...
Here is mine. I grossly overpaid and regret the purchase. I should have waited for a better example for the same money. The type is certainly...
I didn't know that! Thanks.
Welcome to the old dark side, @Andrew Snovell! You have taken the bait and are now hooked :D Collecting ancient coins is incredibly fun and the...
Oh my. Time for a "post your ugliest coin" thread? :D Just teasing (but not kidding). This is one of the many perks of collecting ancients:...
Having only three Celtics so far, I haven't made a collage. There are perhaps a half dozen types I wish to collect. At this juncture, the...
It really is fun to read his stories but it's rather like reading a modern-day disreputable gossip rag-- amusing, likely not strictly factual, and...
The idea of Augustus being a coin collector appears to come from this paragraph in The Lives of the Twelve Caesars by Roman historian Suetonius...
I should have made note of where I read that information, but I have it recorded as: CELTIC, High and Middle Seine 1st century BCE "Bald Head"...
I have the same one :) [ATTACH] I've treated it with Verdicare and am keeping an eye out for bronze disease.
Not to diminish Dhill's post, but keep in mind that the rarity rankings are for Imperial issues. A similar ranking for Provincials would look...
HERAKLEIA TRACHINIA [IMG] THESSALY, The Oitaioi 167-146 BC. AR Hemidrachm (15mm, 2.30 g, 1h) Herakleia Trachinia mint Obv: Lion’s head left,...
Nope, I didn't bid on anything in Agora :)
Congratulations on 2K, Eng! I have only one janiform coin, an Imperatorial era bronze in which the Janus figure has features of Pompey the...
Welcome to ancients, @Urban_Lawyer :). I agree with the preceding posts.
Based on pictures posted in this thread in this thread, yes-- but check out AncientJoe's earliest coins (link to his chronologically-arranged...
I think they mean it is the protective covering for the die, a moldable flexible plastic covering that protected the freshly made die after...
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