I have way, way too many pages on coin photography and keep telling myself I will combine all and delete the old news. It has not happened yet....
Genius of Antioch from the Anonymous Pagan issue of that city. GENIO ANTIOCHENI / APOLLONI SANCTO SMA with workshop A - I in field. [ATTACH]
I consider the GENIO SENATVS of Pius a bit special due to the fight he had with the Senate over the deification of Hadrian. It turned out that...
I have many Genius coins but only one Septimius Severus. The reverse legend is GENIVS PR. Rome mint. [ATTACH]
Note several of Martin's examples show the Greek translation KA for Latin XXI. Both mean the same alloy ratio of 20 parts copper added to one...
I have said on several occasions that cameras take better pictures than phones. Before now, I've never had much of a phone so I was basing his on...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Sorry I can't live online so I miss many letters but I'll throw in two from Zeugma (Antoninus Pius and Philip I) with temple...
Perhaps the seller is right about them being less common but I prefer the Eastern ones because I like the style and workmanship better than the...
Two a bit different bronzes: A barbarous dupondius: [ATTACH] A semis with portrait of Apollo: [ATTACH]
Yours is sharper; mine ($10 in 2009) is rounder. Combine my flan with your preservation and we would have something to crow about. [ATTACH]
Surely no one does this? My Year 2 and 4 Domnas of Alexandria have the year three Caesarea between them? In all honesty, the only thing I...
There are traces of the Syracuse legend between face and dolphins. I see it as a cast fake from a fake original. Very few of these have that...
I think I agree with this if I real the second line to mean "first by ruler, then by Eckhel." I'm not ready to have my Julia Domna of Alexandria...
Several reverse types, vastly more than average obverse variations, many mints and styles ---- If only he had the taste to be born in an era when...
That Commodus is an outstanding coin! Caracalla Pautalia, Thrace, AE32, showing the middle grace from the rear more clearly because the...
Mikey Zee's Mars with a chunk missing is one I would like (preferably with the chunk intact if possible). It is part of the Rome mint AEQVITI...
The problem with any price guide is summed up in Warren's last sentence. How much should we expect to be 'less, or very much less'? As new...
If you like the globe obverse I'm sure the hut reverse series will be easier to find and all have the left facing globe holding bust. [ATTACH]
FH1 is defined as horseman kneeling on the ground. FH4 is slumped over grasping horse's neck. The head straight out is just my observation. As...
It is a great coin certainly much nicer than mine! [ATTACH] To me, this is an FH4 because the rider is not touching the ground and the horse...
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