Interesting post - I thought Sparta only used giant chunks of iron for currency. I'm learning stuff every day.
Nice to see This is very interesting. A while back I posted what I believe is this same (Palestine?) countermark. I had not encountered...
Nice batch of Parthians you got there, DBDc80. Doug does have a point - Parthia was very conservative in their choice of designs for the drachms....
Fakes of the lower-end common/worn type do indeed exist. Three are below. The Hadrian as is particularly convincing if you take a poor photo of...
Eight semesters of Latin, high school and college. And this is about it: Semper Ubi Sub Ubi: "Always wear underwear." (Always where under...
Thank you for this very thorough clarification of something that has been puzzling me for a while. This was very helpful.
Maximinus Thrax often has a little smile: [ATTACH]
I watched that clip on YouTube and was laughing so hard last night I scared the cat. But(t) it is spelt with two Gs - Biggus. Or is that BIGGVS?...
Well, there's always Monty Python's Life of Brian take on Latin names...not sure of the historical accuracy, but it is pretty funny. [ATTACH]...
That's a really good question, Bing. I've been wondering it myself. And what about nicknames? Did anybody every call him, to his face,...
Wow - I am intrigued. Those are countermarks on both sides? I found a bee countermarks:...
Lots of good collecting advice here - I always like reading these posts about how/what to collect. They clarify my own murky thinking on the...
Coool coin - you might check out my original post tacked on to an even older post of John Anthony's - it is sort of lost in "World Coins"...
Actually, I buy misattributed coins all the time off eBay - it is a way to find good stuff cheap. At least it seems like good stuff to me. Here...
Thank you, THCoins - my ignorance of both Indian history and Indian numismatics is showing! I really appreciate your help with this. I'd been...
Actually, my first coin of 2019 was somewhat misattributed. This was a $10 "buy it now" on eBay listed as Macedonia, Pella. The legend didn't...
Nice find, Maridvnvm - a while back this was mis-attributed AE, said to be a Commodus as, came up on eBay. It is a hard-to-photo coin, but I was...
Thank you for the additional information, THCoins. I'm going to try and educate myself on these interesting, chunky coins. For now, here is my...
Thank you all for your help and input on these - the Al-Nasir II. Salah al-Din Yusuf seems to be matching my rather incomplete example.
Lovely coin, Valentinian. I have two of the earlier Justinians with the profile portraits. The darker one has one of the most "late Roman"...
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