Well, the purpose of the plates I'm working on today is just to become fluent with resizing and combining images, so yes, it's rather random. I've...
Hey guys, I was experimenting with some image editing. I'd eventually like to have my entire collection presented in book plates of various...
Jerry, that's a good point. Maybe the number of counterstamps had something to do with re-monetizing the money into different denominations.
Yeah, Jerry, that's the one. Love it! This is just a wild guess Doug, but on the coins I study, Tyche sometimes appears in the guise of Nike as...
I'm on the other end of the spectrum: obsessively single-minded about my collecting goals. I have no interest in accumulating. My collection is...
Fantastic coin!
They all look great, Jerry, but I think my favorite is the Byzantine with the medieval-style forward-facing king. That's just plain cool.
Awesome, Jerry. Yeah, don't get me wrong - I'd like to collect some of the big ones. I just wanted a few smaller ones for the relationship they...
Super coins, Randy!
I spoke today with Daniel Wolf, the author of the The PtolemAE Project and a leading authority on Ptolemaic bronzes. He suggested that the...
The clarity of the microscope shots is unreal.
Thank you for that lesson, Doug!
They're on my distant to-do list, AN. I like both the Himyarite and Sabaean coinages, and they were the trading partners from whom the Nabataeans...
I'll add one more post, just because I'm bored. This one coin of Aretas III is the only coin officially attributed to him that I expect to...
So, he does have a beard. It's an odd portrait on a Roman coin - it reminds me of Akkadian frescoes.
You've touched on some of my other collecting interests here, and they have to do with coinage in the Near East during the 1st-century BC. Once...
Looks like Taitus was one of Jay Leno's ancestors. o_O Super coin, Bing! Love all your RR's.
I've gotta say, the attribution software you can download at that site is pretty slick. Plug in all the details and presto: an Sv. number... [img]
Well I knew they grew them big, but I didn't realize they were that big. In my type family, Denomination A is 73 grams!!!! :eek: (Careful Eng,...
Image with corrected attribution... [img]
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