Geta, CASTOR reverse should be silver so the photos make it look like a cast, limes (ancient) or modern fake....
Akragas AE cast 'tooth' trias - eagle / crab / four dots (trias) c. 450 BC [ATTACH] Next: Another three sided coin
Sorry, this is a drawing. Photography had been invented in 1839 and the technology of that day required very long exposures and only that year...
Alexandria [ATTACH]
Titus Aelius. Earlier coins often include "T AEL" making them easy to ID since he was the only Titus that used the name Antoninus. Antoninus...
Can anyone explain the significance of the minor details of Venus by Diadumenian from Nicopolis? Altar, dolphin, cape? [ATTACH]
I see this as a 'whatever works for you' situation. I despise catalog numbers as stand alone entries but value them as aids in finding the...
Septimius Severus / Venus Alexandria denarius [ATTACH] Next: Aphtodite
That is a very nice Valerian. My Valerian is the common eagle so I'll show a Gallienus with Eirene struck the year before your coin. YN? Well,...
Photo has been my 'thing' for life. I rarely shoot landscapes and dislike shooting people. Other than coins, I shoot small things like flowers...
I suppose any emperor might be paired with Moneta since it took money to buy your way into the graces of the army and people. However, Septimius...
Can anyone show an ancient coin of a republic other than Rome? .... a democracy other than Athens? ... a system other than those two or a monarchy?
Trivia: What an you tell about a coin that reads "Antoninus Pius" on the obverse? Answer: It is not a coin of Antoninus Pius. He regularly...
It will be a while for this one.
Wear received in circulation is honest. Wear caused by tumbling a coin in a rock tumbler to smooth out the rough surface is not so honest....
My favorite college professor once told me that a proper goal in life is to know a little about everything and everything about a little. Neither...
We never had a common name for them and they were too aggressive for keeping with other fish twice their size. Both you mention were different...
In the early 1960's I worked in our family aquarium store. In the early 1970's I took many fish photos and was designated the 'Official...
I consider well centered to be overrated. When I bought mine (oval like the Parthicus example), I considered it special in having both ends of...
These Septimius elephants woul be a lot more popular were it not for their being issued during the low point of quality at the Rome mint until the...
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