Last night ABC TV rebroadcast their two (IMHO Classic) Christmas specials "Prep and Landing". In the second one, we met the Coal Elves whose job...
Merry Christmas to Zumby and all the others here for whom it is tomorrow before some of us are finished with today.
The plummeting size/value of the Roman coinage is a major topic we colectors study. Perhaps the finest example is what happened to the Falling...
That is a coin of great style and a fine way to end the year.
I still maintain that it is easier to shoot the coin on the background you want. I reshot an illustration of my coin supports including a pen of...
This type also comes in a sestertius version. I try to avoid coins this rough but really liked the portrait style. [ATTACH]
Correct. Treat real disease; watch potential disease symptoms.
Septimius was a mite young. Pertinax, AR denarius, Alexandria mint / Ops [ATTACH]
I might add that that coin is nicer and has more of the name clear than many of the Vitellius coins we see here from members.
Vitellius
They remind me of coins that I would have bought had I seen them first. None are perfect and all have a lot to recommend them. My favorite is...
I am happy to see a post of a coin with the words too rarely seen here: "my trusted ancient dealer" rather than one asking what the chances are...
May I suggest you start by getting comfortable with the difference between original silvering and silver added in modern times to fool people who...
There are a hundred scale brands out there and I have been less that fully happy with three I have tried. Consistency is important. If I weigh a...
I also have stopped saying OK to photo ID. I do not like the coin because of the surface erosion which reminds me of the top two ocat.... coins...
Wrong photo but closer than the Republican.
Sorry, I got confused.
A problem here is do we count Kolophon, Kyme, Kyzikos etc. or were those all covered in the C section?
My didrachm (harpa, EY, c.250 BC?) has a chubby faced Helios. [ATTACH]
A bit over a century later, Maues the Indo-Scythian used the type for his AE28 version. [ATTACH]
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