The Greek numeral joke is OK but it is very clever that you "take a stab" at 50 Cent! (He was stabbed in 2000). I don't have the letter combos...
I missed this thread the first time around. CNG's attribution to Aspendos is the best. Most auction houses use SNG Paris (also called SNG BN or...
This Zeus/Perseus coin from Iconium is different. The inscription is ICONI COL. It is pseudo-autonomous as a Roman colony, not a Greek issue...
Guesses: VG $200 VF ex-Virzi $1750 diff: $1550
Does anyone have Winzer, Antike portraitmünzen der Perser und Greichen aus vor-hellenistischer Zeit (Zeitraum ca. 510-322 v.Chr.)? I tried to buy...
The ANS YouTube channel is at https://www.youtube.com/user/ANSCoins/videos . The monthly Saturday "Money Talks" Zoom presentations are there....
Good job. These are almost always poorly struck, and almost always struck from worn dies.
@Pellinore , any thought on why Nirtanak has a right/clockwise/Nazi swastika, while my Sochak and Finn235's coin have the...
Here is a Sogdian coin with similar reversed swastika: [ATTACH] CENTRAL ASIA, Chach, pitchfork tamgha, 7th-8th century AD, AE, 17mm, 1.43 g Obv:...
You are a colony now, learn the origins of our great empire! [ATTACH] MYSIA, Parion, Severus Alexander (AD 222-235), AE 22, 5.85g Obv: IMP CAES...
Check out this 4 minute video showing how gems were carved. Coins used similar techniques. [MEDIA]
Yes. A clever way to indicate denomination of small coins for an illiterate population. See: https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=103146...
I recently posted this on another thread. I wish I could show it to you in person. It is high relief and looks archaic. @dougsmit asks how to...
A clever way to indicate denomination of small coins for an illiterate population. See: https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=103146 rare...
I can only manage half a shield today. [ATTACH] BOIOTIA, Thebes. 525-480 BC. AR Hemiobol (0.53 g). Obv: Half Boiotian shield Rev: Square incuse...
Kushan silver: [ATTACH] Silver obol, circa 5 BC - 45 AD, weight 0.59g , 12 mm Obverse: diademed and draped Greco-Bactrian style bust of king...
I didn't mean to be a conversation killer. Doug, did your club ever start doing Zoom meetings? Is anyone elses' ancient coin club doing Zoom...
Here is a coin that qualifies both ways: [ATTACH] LYCAONIA. Iconium (as Claudiconium, after Claudius). Hadrian (117-138 AD). AE17. 2.36 g. Obv:...
I also desire a book on the history of Magna Graecia. A few years ago I purchased a coin said to be struck in Syracuse by Dionysius I. Dionysius...
Here are two hats on their own: [ATTACH] Pontus, Amisos Æ18. Time of Mithradates VI, circa 120-111 or 110-100 BC. 4.06g, 18mm, 12h. Obv: Winged...
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