Collect-- that Thassalian League is awesome!
No idea if I'm right or wrong, but I say Eh-luh-GA-buh-lus, with GA pronounced like the second syllable of 'exactly'. Drachm: DRAH-kum.
I say teh-tra-DROCK-uhm. Don't know if that is correct.
Didn't see the need to start a new thread :) Here's #2, with a hippocamp. Had a heck of a time trying to take good pictures of it and still am...
I've been wanting an octopus or two and got a couple last month. Good examples can get a bit expensive... this one was the right combination of...
[ATTACH] Macedon, Pangeion Region AR trihemitetartemorion (trihemiobol), 5 mm, 0.26 gm Uncertain mint, 5th century BC Obv: monkey squatting...
Very attractive portrait of Julia Paula and great photos!
VK, your focus and dedication to these rarities is really fun to watch.
A hemidrachm and drachm of Ahmadinejad Vadfradad II (well, he does rather look like him and it could be a relative...) Due to the influence of...
That sure was a nice bunch of Spanish provincials in that auction, huh? I'd love to have bought bunches of them. You picked up a nice one!
Here's one from the group which I did attribute. The color and metal caught my eye-- looks like debased silver or billion. Or is it...
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Except for one or two, I haven't looked closely at any of these nor attempted attribution. I'll probably do that over the holidays. If you see...
Interesting, I had not come across any of these Sogdian coins before. Thanks for the post :)
Welcome to the dark side, it's so much fun! I agree with all of the above. Doug's site is http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/ The link...
There's a smaller one behind it, Little Hans Lollik. Buy it too.
Congratulations, very interesting! I highly recommend this one. 510 acres, a bargain at $29.5M :D...
Here's the Vespasian dupondius. Best guess is that it is Fides, RIC 1214. The figure looks virtually identical to the wildwinds example and I...
Went up where? If vcoins, yep, someone brought that to my attention. A very nice one, but I have an almost identical issue and have several more...
Yes, it's turned out to be a big load o' fun :D True though that I'm not interesting in keeping quite a number of them, but it really is...
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