Wonderful posts!! I'm after one of those types myself.....so many coins, so little time....and even less of a remaining budget LOL
That OP coin is definitely a beauty..Way to go JA and congrats @Sallent !!!!
It just looks so off to me that I have to go with Doug's conclusion. But as Bing notes, it does resemble @iamtiberius third coin....
Absolutely!!!
I agree.....
@Volodya WOW!!! :jawdrop::wideyed:
Cool thread!!!:D It seems that my Roman eagles are almost solely depicted on legionary standards and on Ptolemaic examples....so I'll offer this...
.......denarius that I have ever purchased is posted below. The bust of Mars so hideously ugly with its painfully strained and wrinkled expression...
Yep, it just doesn't look right to me as well, although I would have probably performed a little due diligence as a 'learning/training process'...
Add my welcome too!!! Glad the 'gang' was able to help you!!
Looks very late Roman to me as well...but the LRB's experts need to chime in....
Love the 'Alexander ' reverse !!! That's a magnificent coin OKI!!!! I went after a Trajan with a Melqart reverse at CNG but lost:(
I can't answer that since I just noticed that myself LOL Hey, I didn't notice that either !!!!
I don't know which is scarcer due to the placement of the simpulum and lituus, but the inclusion of the X is supposed to make it highly scarce,...
Ok, I'll play too...one archaic and one not so archaic... BTW; I lost a cool one on CNG today---An RR with alternate modes of...
Well, as long as we're posting the Augustus-Lucius/Gaius types....I'll join in: [ATTACH]
Cool history everyone...and V-K's link is the first I've ever heard of that particular event... My father was in the Pacific and fought in New...
It's still 100%......I'd leave it just as it is!!! It's gorgeous and looks ancient!!!
I'm in total agreement with all the posts, specifically all those comments regarding @panzerman and @Bing's coins... Naturally, I'd prefer the...
Cool coin @Orfew !!:) I'm afraid all of my former medievals are now in someone else's collection....among all my moderns and half of my former...
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