1494: Levinson VII-7 [ATTACH] Giovanni II Bentivoglio (1494-1506). Bologna. Pattern Testone. 1494. O/ II BONONIENSIS IOANNES BENTIVO LVS. Capped...
I got my secret saturnalia in the mail yesterday! There were three coins of Constantius that are well outside of my collected an area, but one of...
Years ago, when I was reading Benvenuto Cellini's autobiography I was surprised to learn that he had minted coins. I went online, and after some...
Love those egyptian hadrians!
I've had an extraordinary coin collecting year this year. 2018 marked my return to the hobby after a hiatus of about a decade, and my first time...
Edward II, farthing [ATTACH] An esoteric category: coins featuring a character from the plays of christopher marlowe
To each his own; some of my coins I collect for aesthetic and historical value, in which case eye appeal is important (though I'm not much of a...
What he said! 2018 has been amazing. I got all 5 obtainable coins with dies by Benvenuto Cellini, something I thought would take years to...
I already posted an antinous (just a tessera, but an antinous, nonetheless)
Antinous (Tessera) [ATTACH]
[ATTACH] Galba. AD 68-69. Cast Æ “Sestertius” (32mm, 20.26 g). Paduan type. Later cast after Giovanni da Cavino, 1500-1570. Obv: IMP. SER. SVLP....
Is it just me or is the second coin badly tooled?
I'd love to go to that museum! But there's not much else drawing me to Copenhagen..
free it for sure! It's not a very attractive mount.
Not an entry post, but that book was my beach read last year, and for the most part I found it to be excellent!
ugly though it may be, I'm a little green with envy. Here's my (no less ugly) tessera: [ATTACH]
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[ATTACH] Fake Galla Placidia bought from (and returned to) Emporium Hamburg, earlier this year. I learned several things from this purchase: 1)...
darn, I nearly qualify! And this is a coin I've been looking for for my side historical collection (which I collect for interest and not eye...
Also added another couple of Krauwinckel jetons. Will perhaps do a write-up of these too. Volcanus and Cyparissus: [ATTACH] Joab and Amasa,...
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