Edit: ALL SOLD. For a decade I was interested in coins of Roman Mesopotamia. There are several good books on the Roman East and its interactions...
Mark Fox wrote the Moneta list this: "Late last year, Turkey and Tunisia formally requested the US to impose import restrictions on a very wide...
You should not show that coin here :happy:. I can't afford to also get interested in beautiful "modern" coins and that's a real beauty.
I love the large Julian bull type. I am not attempting that, but I will pick up a new mint when the condition and price are right. [ATTACH]...
Some ancient coins indicate their denominations. Early Republican denarii have an "X" for ten, but that is not quite the same as actually naming...
I agree. It is a beautiful group with consistent high quality. I like them all. For me the best would be the Septimius Severus legion 1 (#10),...
You might add a digital image at much larger than life size to make it easy to see which coin is which when you flip through many such pages.
This tetradrachm of Roman Alexandria has emperor Claudius on the obverse and this mother, Antonia, on the reverse. Antonia was the younger...
Wow! A spectacular group--and far more than a few! I see some classic rarities and many wonderful coins. Thanks for showing us some of your...
My site on Maximinus Thrax http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Maximinus/Maximinus.html begins with an example of his early portrait and a similar...
Diana and hound [ATTACH] Macrinus, 217-218 AE28. Nicopolis ad Istrum AVT K OΠΠEΛ C-EVH MAKPINOC ["C-EVH" for Severus] Autokrater, Caesar...
This thread proves many CT members have excellent Byzantine coins. If you don't know much about Byzantine coins and wonder about them, you can...
I won't, because I like the coin better in hand than I expected from their photo.
When you buy a coin from a photograph, after you've got it, it is a good idea to compare the coin to the photograph and see if you can tell what...
What is interesting to me is the date of the coin and the title it recorded: PF S AVG for "Senior" Augustus during his "second-reign." [ATTACH]...
Separate names with a comma.
