I do not speak Spanish but to my way of reading "the sleeping shrimp is carried by the current" could mean 'go with the flow'.
Fifty years ago there were those who proposed that Domna's first coins did not start until 194 AD. For the last ~40 or so, most people give her...
That is a nice coin. The youngest looking Domna portraits were not the first to be issued. I believe the earliest were made before her...
Nice group! It may not be an upgrade but why not replace that late Septimius with one from 193? The Albinus is a 194. The only 193 type is...
You know, Mat knows, I know but for the sake of one or two new here should someone say 'Hadrian'.
There is a point where being so far off center starts adding interest. I once saw an Aegina stater with the head and one front leg barely on the...
[ATTACH] Certainly it is a falling horseman but I feel the face that remains is looking left so the style was FH4 'clutching' rather than the...
The large rendition on your great coin shows the figures on top much more clearly than on my Commodus billon 4dr which downsized the lighthouse to...
That is a very nice coin. There are many, many coins of Pescennius Niger that are not found in the literature and many dies seem to have survived...
I like Decius so I'll show some coins not everyone might have seen. Those who only want to see perfect coins should leave now. Some late coins...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustan_History There are later biographers but some of them are a bit less than reliable and those are the good...
That has to be the ugliest face even seen on a coin.
The metal looks excellent and the obverse centering is off in a way that does not hurt the coin. The reverse centering is all that keeps this...
" (incorrectly attributed to Trieros)." Interesting! The legend TPIH is not the city but the denomination!
I'd leave that one alone. You might remove the dusty green cover as seen on the two coins in the first post by RC but The only thing that might...
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