Terrific coins and write-up @DonnaML - and everybody else too. As an eBay scrounger, I have found that earlier Roman Egypt material is really...
Have you ever bought a coin that was really, really cruddy, just because it was an interesting type? I do this a lot on eBay, if the price is...
That's a great countermark, Doug. Curious, I found these possible matches: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6840629...
Nice bees. Here's a bee from Babylon on a tetradrachm: [ATTACH] Seleukos I Nikator Tetradrachm (c. 311-300 B.C.) Babylon Mint Head of Herakles...
I understand your frustration - it took me a while to get used to some of the ancient search lingo - and I still have a lot to learn. When it...
That is really nice, @panzerman Please let me know if you ever want to swap :rolleyes: [ATTACH]
I'm convinced! You had me at non-Imperial wedding in the first paragraph.
A nice example of a scarce coin, @Gam3rBlake - CT's own @Valentinian has a page on these types for women here:...
Welcome to Coin Talk, and to ancients. I too think your coin looks legit. Now that you have one in silver, you can also get a bigger one in...
I was very excited to see your VENVS VICTRIX of Salonina "rear view" - from what I can tell, this is a fairly scarce coin. Somehow I got two of...
This is a terrific write-up @Curtisimo - very informative. A while back I got a scruffy little Provincial from Perge that I am not entirely sure...
Interesting post - it provoked me to look through my Nicaea AEs to see if there were any radiates - I have a few, with only one that is supposedly...
This is an enjoyable, and useful, thread. It's not Monday, and I don't really collect medieval, but every once in a while a medieval crops up in...
A beautiful Macrinus you have there @Shea19 A recent non-lovely Macrinus led me to a comment on his beard, found in Henry Jewell Bassett's...
Very nice coin, and informative, enjoyable write-up, @Curtisimo. I don't have any Liberalitas silver for Severus Alexander, but I do have two...
Thank you for this very interesting information - that column has puzzled me for a while now and it is good to know it has such interesting...
Interesting thread. I thought I'd weigh in with a bit of fiction: Lest Darkness Fall by L. Sprague de Camp. It is an alternative history of Rome...
"Abused and neglected" describes vast areas of my collection. Which is to say I like these threads. :) From last month, here's a Faustina II...
I'm still thrilled something in my collections is near-uniquish. Mine is pretty crummy, but I tried to get some better photos - it has a mottled...
Great-looking Antioch Tyche, @Shea19 - If I have my attribution correct, I have an example of the OP (RPC 8589) - but in much worse shape, but...
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