'Uncertain' is a common attribution on coins of this region. I prefer it to guesses tagged on coins that will be changed by every new generation...
There are people who select a spouse for reasons other than beauty. Antonia came with money, power and prestige. By many standards, she would...
This link covers the question as I understand it. Start with the paragraph that begins 'Curtis Clay'. I see the Trajan restorations as rather...
Compare to Svoronos plate 22 perhaps #67 which he dates 297-255 BC???
Those who get this joke are showing their age.
I believe the word here is 'unduly'. It is often necessary to manipulate an image with the coin available for reference to increase or decrease...
My annulet coin is marked on the obverse. I am fond of Flavian mintmarked coins but have very few. [ATTACH] I seem to have a fondness for well...
The ram is a part of the prow. I assumed NSK was making a funny by switching 'ram' meanings from 'male sheep' to 'hull opener'.
For those who do not know this type: There are a couple things that I find interesting. The original coin was inscribed ANT AVG with ANT...
SMHE? That is a guess. It would ALWAYS help to post both sides. A specialist (not I) might recognize the style. [ATTACH]
On June 8, I reported here the four day delivery by DHL from Spain to Virginia. I paid more for the speed and the coin but these days using DHL...
My coin is the Nerva as for Divus Augustus. It may be in better condition because it spent many years attached to something using the three...
The denarius version: [ATTACH]
There will never be agreement on how to treat Provincials. For that matter, there will never be agreement on whether you post Provincials along...
I have been calling mine a tet of Antiochos I Sear 6866 (one arrow) but the fine details of arrows and monograms are muddled by wear. ex....
Those of you who only collect one small part of ancient coins have the option of following a book order (in this case, Crawford) but we collectors...
Trajan, AR tetradrachm, Tyre, 114-5 AD (TRP 19, COS 6) head rt. over eagle and club / Melqart [ATTACH] Next: A coin of Hadrian showing an animal...
The reverse of this coin is not bad compared to what I find online but the bird on the left seems less common than an owl on the right. Sear 5619...
Am I the only one who takes offence at this line? Constantius would allow 'under' Marcus Aurelius Maximianus but not 'under' Galerius Valerius...
Whatever other good characteristics (if any?) Otho may have had, the hobby will never forgive his lack of sestertii. Pescennius Niger had an...
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