Mine is Alexandria mint and has a misspelling GLORAI for GLORIA on the reverse. The coin was shown in an article in The Numismatist magazine at a...
Plautilla's father was an old friend of Septimius and was making every effort to set himself up as second in command or even heir apparent to...
Numismatic interest 10/10 Value 10/10 Eye appeal - Only a mother could love I guess that makes me mom.
Much of the value of these depends on details in the faces. Three figures with clear features surrounded by readable legends can be worth 100x the...
The happy bride appeared on this AE38 from Stratonicaea with her husband and Zeus on horseback. The countermark erased Zeus' head on the other...
Fakes have existed since the beginning of time but the problem has grown since it has become easy to set oneself up in business as a dealer and...
I have nothing new but will pile on my previously shown Crispus coins. Three from Rome [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Siscia [ATTACH] obverse:...
Nice example. These always seem to come on small flans making us choose whether we want great legends like Steve's, great Nike like yours. A...
My favorite one is barbarous and not in great shape but still interesting to me. [ATTACH]
Because of Oki's long, long running Hadrian thread I am running out of new Hadrian's to post. I suppose most would start with a coin from the...
Black is a normal color for silver coins that spent 1800 years in certain situations. If a silver coin has reached black black like the two...
I had two occurrences of VCoins sellers failing to deliver a PayPal paid-for coin listed on their site in 2016. It seems a common practice to...
It describes the coins bearing the keywords. Rather than sister cities, I suspect it was more like what we wold have today if the Olympics were...
http://ancientolympics.arts.kuleuven.be/eng/TB029EN.html The above link explains this as a way of saying the contest at Ankyra was not THE...
That oxen coin is a nice example of a mule. In my 'field' we have quite a few coins listed by 'experts' as mules which I simply can not accept...
The part that troubles me most is I can't see any likelihood that we will ever learn the story. We need to unearth the diary of a mintmaster...
When I first saw this post I thought the idea was to show coins that were bad on the day they were made but it soon migrated to coins that became...
Thank you for the post. I'm currently slacking off on buying things I don't absolutely have to have from overseas (I have too many coins and have...
That coin was on my short list for CNG 395 but I was in Indiana on sketchy WiFi that day and was busy doing chores for my 103 y.o. MIL so bid on...
I was sitting in a recliner chair looking at an as of Julia Domna. I dropped it and could not find it so I figured it was in the chair but the...
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