I may have goofed big time. Bought this from CNG in August-- for a friend who asked me to pick out a selection of ancient coins. I don't know...
Written with an old-fashioned fountain pen. Not a very common sight these days!
Ahhhhhhhh, much better ;) Nice coin!
If the coins are not displayed in full as part of the post, I usually don't click to open them. Especially if it is a very large file-- takes too...
LOL, I had just paged back to admire it again. Really really like that coin! Before my time on CT or I would've liked the heck out of it.
Then I'm gonna post my Best Supporting Scorpion™ as well :D Here in an encore after her appearance in Post Your Hadrians, please welcome........
Very interesting and educational, thanks.
Romanus IV Diogenes [IMG] Still snickering about Anoob's comment, Jesus peeking in the window, holding a Heineken. Speaking of, here's a...
It really is beautiful, especially for a brockage. Nicely centered, deep impression. I like the brockage portrait more than the obverse!
I got a sweet little scorpion yesterday. That's some nice detail for such a tiny canvas. [ATTACH] CARIA, Mylasa. Hemiobol (Circa 450-400 BC)....
So many things wrong with this plan. Not the least of which is this: Conflict of interest.
Hilarious! Would love to know the story behind it. Surely the engraver did this purposefully?
ooooh, nice type!
Welcome to the old dark side! Fun fun fun :)
Interesting... the Antiochos VIII is an inverted patina, visually the opposite of John's Syrians. [ATTACH]
Time to check out the scenery in the real world. Looking forward to the plethora of P's upon return!
Ptolemy II [ATTACH]
The P section is going to take ten pages :) I have a lot of them, not sure if they are all on my computer and I'm not home. Looking forward to...
Yeah, that would've been bad. It's in my purse, safe & sound :)
Here's another Ptolemy, 47.5mm >90 gm. Haven't checked the attribution yet. Not the greatest specimen but I wanted a representative maximum...
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