You should have a blast attributing them! Which of course is part of the fun!
What a great story and journey! I'm glad you stuck with it. My anniversary has passed (March 2003). I was very excited to find Roman coins for...
Very interesting. I can understand how hackers who have hacked into the Sixbid website would be able to see what bids you have placed if you use...
I never place my bids through Sixbid and always go through the auction houses directly. The site is excellent for one-stop-shopping to help game...
Congrats! It's always a wonderful feeling to cross a 'grail coin' off the list.
Thanks everyone for the kind words and great 'hand shakes'! @Roman Collector, thanks for posting a modern version for comparison! And thank you...
This beauty arrived over the weekend. Unfortunately, the photography doesn't quite capture the fetching greenish-grey patina very well. [ATTACH]...
A most eloquent way to put it and reason enough why coins should not be entombed.
I believe yours has the same 'cross' atop the frame that the others have, it's just smaller. [ATTACH]
OK, many thanks!
Do you have a larger photo of your coin?
How far into Vespasian's career does the series go?
They have been recommended to me before, I just haven't gotten around to them yet. And saying that, I'm currently reading Mary Beard's Pompeii...
RIC 124 has many variants. The catalogue lists the main ones as 124a through 124c. Also, there are variants with a lituus within the triangular...
My lone brockage. [ATTACH] Vespasian AR Denarius, 2.92g Rome mint, 69-70 AD RIC - . BMC - . RSC - . Obv: IMP CAESAR VESPASIANVS AVG; Head of...
It's the same text found in Suetonius, but concentrated on just the Flavians with in-depth footnotes by the Flavian historian Brian W. Jones.
Yes, style is one way, fabric another. Butcher and Ponting have found the metallic composition of the 'Alexandrian' style Syrian tets is the same...
And here is my rather short Flavian era historical fiction list. The Antagonists - Ernest K. Gann (Masada) The Triumph - Ernest K. Gann (Flavius...
Here are a few books as a Flavian collector I've acquired and found very useful over the years. Admittedly, I'm a fussy traditionalist, none are...
Three years later. [ATTACH] Another Titus 'selfie' [ATTACH]Titus as Caesar AR Denarius, 2.69g Ephesus mint, 71 AD (Vespasian) RIC 1440A. BMC...
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