Like the Gordian shown by maridvnvm, Philip II used Serapis on his double portrait coins. This is Marcianopolis. [ATTACH] Caracalla had his...
Legos to support Medieval coins? How positively Byzantine!
I only have a few Martin missed. He showed the rare IICO but this is less rare IIC obverse. I suspect but can not prove that this smashed...
Is this the same and centered differently or a different coin? I believe they are the same and we only need a dozen other carefully selected...
Anyone in the market for this type needs to be aware of this very common Cast FAKE. Roman Republic moneyer T. Carisius, 46 BCE FAKE AR Denarius,...
No one believes me but I insist that you can get sharper, vibration free photos from a camera stand with no adjustments of height. TIF's stand is...
This is a long standing question for coin collectors. Sear got us used to the matter by defining 'Greek' more or less as anything ancient not...
https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0786868643/ref=tmm_hrd_used_olp_0?ie=UTF8&condition=used&qid=1543110142&sr=8-1 Some time ago I posted a...
I read TS delta [IMG] FH2 'sitting' is one of the four major poses and not all that uncommon. The new kid on the block is where the victim is...
My favorite is also the Faustina but for a different reason than the reverse type. My want list includes two dated Faustina coins of Alexandria....
To be of use, a Black Museum has to have the fakes well documented explaining the type fake being shown. Too often we see comments on fakes that...
Since we have many new members this year. let me point out that many of us will be posting our top 10 or 12 (or whatever is appropriate for you)...
Graded coins by NGC (only) do sell for more now but only if they will grade at very high grades (AU or MS) and will appeal to people who do not...
While you can report it to a moderator and ask their help, the easy answer is to edit the second one quickly to say something completely...
As I recall, the Provinces were realigned in the late 1st century moving some Thracian cities to Moesia rather like there was a pre-Civil War US...
While I see many good points here and on TIF's reply, the big one is that is is often easy to KNOW that a coin is fake from photos or a quick...
Just to show you have to be careful with these city names, I'll show a Vespasian AE22 from Flavia Philadelphia in Lydia - a completely different...
I tried the random thing for this thread, too, but came up with #826 which was a coin I've shown before that no one wants to see again. I like...
There is an unfortunate tendency for modern Europeans to take credit for inventing things that were known to some ancient people and not...
I have shown my sixpences several times here so I'll undercut with a threepence of 1578 that suffers from doublestriking. I always wanted a...
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