It's a choice example of a very iconic type. I'm a bit envious! Congrats!
It is indeed a wonderful siliqua; full flan, fantastic toning, and great condition. I have a few attractively toned siliquae, but this one takes...
I've wrote up a rough draft of the email, but it's been a busy week, I didn't feel like dealing with anything stressful, and I haven't gotten...
Pretty cool! I only have a small shipwreck cob.
Oops, by 20% I meant 20 karats. That's a cool tetarteron.
It's been 30 years since I last picked up an Isaac II, the previous one being an inexpensive one from Allen Berman's Cheap Ancients lists (I miss...
I've been pretty good about avoiding coins with BD, ever since the Great BD Outbreak of 2000. None of my coins from him have gone sour. I...
I've procrastinated writing the email. Might as well get it over with. I looked at the coin closely this morning, and I can't make heads nor...
This is fairly handy....
Yes, that's the same conclusion I came to. I am admittedly inexperienced with Domna coins, but I noticed that the more bona fide Scantillas had...
I took a look at the obverse to see if I could make anything out of the legends and was not able to. Some Domna (of the Juno type) have...
I recently purchased an inexpensive (very inexpensive as Scantillas would go) worn sestertius. However, after some counter-opinions, I think it...
I still recommend the history podcasts. My parents have been going through the Totalus Rankium podcasts. That might lead to more of a focused...
Caesar coins just go for crazy money, nowadays. My elephant is holed, but otherwise not horrible, acquired during the 1990's. You also have...
That's a really handsome set, and compiled in record time! Titus was the one to finally complete my set. It deserves an applause emoji!
[ATTACH] Shipwreck coin. Attribution: SC 2148 Date: 104-102 BC - struck under Ariarathes VII (112-100 BC), Cappadocian Kingdom Obverse: Diademed...
That's a neat road sign. My nicest one is actually a laureate sestertius. Here's a recent, not-so-nice one, purchased as a tagalong and...
I bought this trachy of the Byzantine bad boy, Andronicus I, for $35. There's usually only one or two of these on vcoins at once time. [ATTACH]...
I don't fully understand the question, but the denarii, while scarcer than the Ant's, are fairly affordable, and one can get a quite decent...
While not an expert on modern coinage, I would also postulate that while attractive, it's probably faux toning. No ancient coin (and to be fair,...
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