Gotta love the ethnic crown of the kings of Khwarezm! Sawashfan AR "dirham", c. 750 AD [ATTACH] Also the Turco-Hepthalite warlord Vasudeva had...
[ATTACH] Not the easiest to see, but Agrippa on the left of these Nemausus pieces wears a wreath in the shape of the prow of a ship. @Spaniard I...
If you were on the fence about getting into ancients, this is a great place to start! All coins ending Friday are silver drachms of the Sassanian...
I've sold quite a few coins in the past 18 months, so I suppose I'm bound to have seller's remorse about at least a few of them. Thankfully, far...
Some disjointed observations: - Augustus seems to have largely set the precedent that his portrait should be frozen in time somewhere in his...
No real limit here. I used to try to limit my Romans to just one per emperor, but I'm increasingly toying with the idea of adding on to the...
Beautiful! I love the Cistophori of Claudius, and have been trying without success to win one for over six months now... they don't go cheap! I...
It's a silver drachm of Shapur I. Fairly scarce and in very high demand because he caused such a headache for the Roman's, and also because he...
Very nice! One of the most iconic of all Mauryan punchmarked coins. I also have an example of the type - I suppose it might be GH587?[ATTACH]
Generally speaking, denarii were used to stress the legitimacy of the Emperor, which ultimately rested in one man holding multiple Republican...
When I first started I didn't know not to buy from Cyprus, and fell for one of his listings. Didn't take long to figure out it was a fake, and he...
Are you sure that's Zeno? I almost see a horizontal S in the middle... Could be the empress Aelia Zenonis?
Nice way to end the year! It's a beautiful coin and I hope you will enjoy your vacation! I owned a Zeno tremissis until about a week ago. Didn't...
It can really be said that our modern aesthetic taste derives from the standards of Antiquity, although in most cases the Renaissance and other...
Recent acquisition from a job lot, mixed in with some other Severan denarii Caracalla AR Denarius, Ancient imitation? ANTONINVS AVGV BRIT,...
A few disjointed thoughts on the subject after mulling a bit more: 1) Always beware of speculation. Probably the best example of this would be...
Will my collection appreciate as much as my 401k by the time I retire? Probably not. Will it appreciate more than my wife's Lularoe legging...
I don't know if I buy in to these being actual uncia, but they are very cool nonetheless! Considering that a quadrans in the first century was...
Very cool! I thought that the Tokyo museum had a complete collection of the Twelve Antique coins? Or maybe that was a different museum?
Nice coins all! Personally I collect Byzantine as an extension of Roman, currently ending with Justinian, but hopefully one day extending at...
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