Just to add to the pile-on: this place has been an education and an entertainment. Thanks to everybody for creating one of the nicest places on...
The detail on Cucombor's reverse is pretty great--on R and R in particular.
To be fair to the celators, all evidence points towards Nero being pretty fat in squished in real life. Which gives me hope about my own...
This was the toughest vote for me. The portrait on that Titus looks like a little silver human, but man something in old Claudius' eyes feels...
This is a little late the party, but there's a thread on Forum that talks about using film developing chemicals (hypo), and the before/after...
The first image after the coin looks a lot like Prince Phillip's boyfriend in Braveheart. Longshanks was the first medieval coin I bought,...
Is it six rows of bricks vs. seven?
This might be a weirdly specific thing to be impressed by, but I would never expect to see foreshortening on an ancient coin like I see exhibited...
That first one is a beauty, even with the pitting.
Your coin knowledge is an ocean around mine, Bing, so if I'm smart you're oceanically-sized in your intelligence!
I am smart!
Then this also checks off the genuine cast off my checklist! This keeps getting better and better. I was reading up on the coin, and this site...
I guess that's Byzantines for you, but that's part of their charm. Even after looking up the Basil coin I had to squint to make out the reverse,...
I grabbed the Basil. It looked a little mucky but was a ruler I didn't have and I thought it would be cool to have one of these. That you think...
Thanks Sallent, Smojo and Zumbly. I'd tried searching it in Vcoins but hadn't noticed the laureate bust and, and now I've got another target to...
I didn't realize that there were GIII denarii. Everything I see out in the wilderness looks like an antoninianus. I just searched Vcoins for...
I'm going #1 one on the strength of that strong chin.
At first all I saw was a goofy-looking Christ. It took me a couple minutes to find Gordian and now I have to strain to see Christ.
I love the flow lines on this guy. You don't tend to see those on AE as much.
Great write-up and coin. I'm going to have to go track down pictures of GII now..
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