Worth owning for the Agrippina portrait
One coin per thread strikes me as better.
Better strike than most. A nice coin!
If the mintmark were clear, this would be exceptional. Can you make out more than the photo shows?
This one I like!
Tooled???
http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/abb.html SC was used in the Roman Republic to mean that the metal was provided by the Senate and in...
I never think about the people who spent them but only the people who made them. Why were they made the way they were made? When? Where? How?...
The standard text on this for Roman is usually Coinage in the Roman Economy, 300 B.C. to A.D. 700 by Kenneth Harl. It covers the wide range a bit...
I'd leave the green alone. What is underneath is likely to be much uglier and this looks stable. I agree and generally say that if you don't...
Don't let that stop you. My coin library only takes about 30 feet of shelf space but is growing at a much slower rate now that there is so much...
I'm a little disappointed that this thread made it to page 4 without mentioning the movie Caligula. I am not suggesting you view the movie but...
Modern coin collectors try to make their coins look like they never served as coins. They value mint luster that 'in nature' disappears with a...
There is a lot to learn about ancients and much of it is harder to accept if you already know the answers from modern coins. Yes, all ancients...
Most people either collect generally ("Coins I like that I can afford") or specifically ("Eastern mint denarii of Septimius Severus") there is...
That is one magnificent coin. Just look at the face on that wolf.
Ripley: I went to a coin show yesterday and look what followed me home. I might have passed it up as just another random chariot but because I...
They come in silver also. Mine is a litra which you may choose to call an obol if you wish. They come much nicer than this but really nice...
Some nose!
Old post shopping is a good idea. One thing you may see is that there are a lot of options when it comes to ancient coins. There were a lot of...
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