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[IMG] We are but a week away from Saturnalia and I want to wish you all a happy Faustina Friday! This week's installment concerns a common...
Well respected and reliable firm. Competition is high, so don't expect bargains.
If you are a specialist collector and on the lookout for rarities, you can't be a condition crank. For example, this may be only the second known...
Sort of. It's what renaissance and early modern numismatists -- writing in Latin -- called a coin cabinet. [ATTACH]
Don't worry about it. You can always see his auctions online at his website and at biddr.
I'm looking forward to seeing them when they arrive, @Seated J! Uncharacteristically, I didn't participate in Frank's auction this time around.
That's a wonderful addition to your growing numophylacium, @JayAg47! Gotta love 'em chunky-style!!
Fantastic acquisitions for your collection!! Of course, I gotta love the elephant denarius. My favorite, though, is the Marcus Aurelius Concordia...
Very fun!!! Now I need to get one! The want list just keeps growing and growing!
Cities with ties to Athens used bronze coins with owl iconography. This little one from Sigeion (Latin Sigeium) would have been used in everyday...
Fun coin! I've always liked that reverse type.
Hadrian with a Clain-Stefanelli provenance. [IMG] Hadrian, AD 117-138. Roman provincial billon tetradrachm, 12.76 g, 24.8 mm, 11 h. Egypt,...
[IMG] L. Licinius Crassus and Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus with L Pomponius, 118 BC. Roman AR denarius serratus, 3.91 g, 19.6 mm, 1 h. Narbo, 118 BC....
Interesting variety! Here's an eyesore from the second officina. [IMG]Trebonianus Gallus, AD 251-253. Roman AR antoninianus, 3.49 g, 20.3 mm, 7...
The ANS attributes this issue to Cyzicus, Göbl to Samosata, and RIC to Antioch. According to the introduction of RIC volume V, during Valerian's...
Athena attacking an anguipedal monster! [ATTACH] Volusian, AD 251-253. Roman provincial Æ 29.1 mm, 11.2 g, 6 h. Cilicia, Seleucia ad Calycadnum,...
If you haven't put them in the mail, do it today. ONLY 10 DAYS UNTIL SATURNALIA! [IMG]
You mean Saturnalia on Dec 17! ;)
I wasted all day at work and couldn't read this entertaining thread until just now. I was going to suggest Volusian, but I see you are on top of it!
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