Nice one! I recently added this one to my collection [ATTACH] It wasn't until I began to actually organize my collection that I came to a...
I struggled for years to find a Florian, then I got like a dozen, and I haven't seen very many lately. My favorite and current only example [ATTACH]
Numismatically, I consider the cutoff between ancient and medieval to be: Western Europe: Rise of Charlemagne and the shift from a gold/copper...
Only have one Jovian, from Sirmium- it's one of my prettiest LRBs [ATTACH]
Thanks all, and nice examples! Next up are some coins from a Ptolemaic lot from Nomos; I still don't understand how these are attributable to...
This will be a random and sporadically updated thread- so apologies in advance! But, in the past few months I have bought up quite a few large...
There's only a handful of ebay sellers I will buy Greek silver from - the fakes are too numerous and too well done.
Very cool! I don't think that particular Abydos (South of Cairo) struck coins, just the one in Troas. As an aside, a number of years ago Dogfish...
Faustina I - There is a die impression most of the way around, too close to the beading for it to be from a genuine Roman die. Fake. Agrippina -...
Congrats! IMO, one of the more appealing Julio-Claudian coins - I love the powerful portrait. [ATTACH]
My unambiguously oldest ancient is this 1/2 stater or siglos of Croesus, minted 561-546 BC. [ATTACH] Slightly younger but still 6th century BC...
I'm not on their mailing list (just as well, my wife *already* rolls her eyes every time Leu, Roma, or CNG show up at the doorstep) but nice...
Nice! I got this Otho AE in a group lot that worked out to be about $10-15 per coin - totally by luck as I didn't realize what I had until it was...
Nice! I got this one in a group lot years ago and sold it, which I have deeply regretted ever since. Eucratides' bilingual coinage is theorized...
Not too many dupondii in my collection as I mostly gravitate toward silver [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
No true masterpieces in my collection, but some of my favorites Kyme, Aiolis, trihemiobol or diobol (unique in this denomination) [ATTACH]...
The one I'm most excited about is this one, which I think I got a killer deal on [ATTACH] Top to bottom: - Vandals, extremely rare bust/victory...
I won three individual coins and more group lots than I was anticipating. Whoops! I feel like I mostly got good deals, scored a couple rarities...
Thanks all! I believe I had actually imaged most of my Omkara types on my old phone, but didn't migrate the pictures over to my new one - I'll...
One can't help but imagine how different our world would be today if the Sassanians had taken the Arab invaders seriously, and mounted as...
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