The argentii shown here are exceptional not so much from grade but for lack of cracks and chipped edges. I have seen these coins broken and...
A hint: many/most coins of this series are part-legend. ΠOΛITΩN is a common suffix from several cities but coins that show ΠPOC tend to be...
We see what we want to see. I believe we can go too far applying modern nomenclature to animals drawn by people whose degree and source of...
If all those references to 'Comazon' are to the same person, he lasted a long time by standards of the day. Septimius killed many people who were...
I would hardly classify those coins as what would belong to a 'lightweight' collector and also believe that the idea of getting something a little...
While I most certainly would be happy for Wildwinds to use any of my images, my website is not a sale site and uses photos to illustrate a point...
IMHO, the best cut coins are those with a surprise inside. Athens fourree New Style tetradrachm half [ATTACH]
Antoninus Pius Alexandria drachm / Athena(Minerva) [ATTACH] Next: a coin of Athena or Minerva from a date later than Pius
You can't blame that on the boy. There are denarii of Gordian I and II but they never set foot in Rome while emperor so the idea probably...
Artimis on obverse of Syracuse AE22 317-289 BC (Agathokles - whose name is unfortunately cut short on my coin) ex Ed Waddell 1988 [ATTACH]...
The easy one is the small AE with Pegasos and a trident. [ATTACH] Back to your regularly scheduled program:
This obol has something right of the grain on the obverse but what??? CNG sold a die dupe calling it 'head of a mule' but I don't see it on my...
This is a great article that all should read before commenting on this statue. I have never understood the mind set that requires the Met to...
The recent hoard had many very nice owls. As a result, the market for 'acceptable but nothing special' coins took a real hit. Many of us wanted...
I wish more beginning collectors would realize the benefits of selecting a way of filing their coins that would still work for them when their...
The site is also new to me. I had no idea that there were so many non-Roman coins bearing the eagle mark.
Clodius Albinus AE24 Pautalia, Thrace, 193-196 AD, Serpent altar tree [ATTACH] Next: a coin of any Caesar who was NOT related to his Augustus
Nothing to see here? [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Compare this with Zumbly's obverse. [ATTACH]
This is the best reason I can think of, too. There are many Greek coins that are hard to date with certainty closer than a century so date...
While the eye on the portrait is a bit odd, the big reason to suspect unofficial is that the reverse is normal for Caracalla but not Domna. I...
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