Pretty sure there are reindeer running across Santa's cap: [ATTACH] Santatrukes (circa 93/2-70/69 BC). AR drachm (4.12 gm). Rhagai mint [= Ray,...
Here's mine. It is tiny and hard to see: [ATTACH] Balearic Islands off Spain, Ebusus / Ibiza. Octavo (eight unit), AE9x12, 0.87g Obv: Kabeiros...
Actually here is another coin of Epiros, I think, and I need some help with it. [ATTACH] Epirus, The Molossi, circa 360-330/25 BC, AE17, 2.39g...
If you want the thread to stick around you have to end with something to encourage easy replies like "Post anything related to the letter A, or...
[ATTACH] KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.04 gm). Arados mint. Civic issue, dated CY 59 (201/0 BC). Obv: Head of...
Counterfeit. I suspect the anchor side is a die match for Specimen 23 at...
Historia Numorum, 1911 edition.
Christmastown? [ATTACH]
This king wore a crown with wings and a little bull-head decoration on top. [ATTACH] Western Turk dynasties, BI drachm, Kabulistan, 630-711 AD,...
The provenance story of this coin is chapter 3 of Frank Holt's Lost World of the Golden King: In Search of Ancient Afghanistan....
I really wanted an Egyptian octobol after seeing one Joe Sermarini was hawking at the New York International. I was unsuccessful at auction for a...
[ATTACH] SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos IV Epiphanes. 175-164 BC. Æ (43mm, 71.83 g, 1h). “Egyptianizing” series. Antioch on the Orontes mint. Struck...
I am certain my 4.13g example was done with the portrait on the hammer side. That coin is not typical. If the hammer hadn't hit the blank...
These two are interesting because they show that the anvil die wasn't always the fire altar side. The second one has nearly the entire fire altar...
Real, and they were Skythian. See The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World by Adrienne Mayor....
Kantharos on both sides: [ATTACH] Calabria, Taras, 280-228 BC?, obol, 0.56g 10mm Kantharos with five dots on both obverse and reverse! Ref: SNG...
What is the defining characteristic of Serapis? I ask because of this coin, which features a bearded head with no modius, was described as...
Perhaps you could teach us your techniques. Post some fakes that you have detected in dealer catalogs and show us how you exposed them. I am...
The ANS has a black cabinet. Last year I visited to attend their seminar on counterfeits. I snapped pictures of the Black Sea Hoard dies which...
Meteor?
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