He was working on his doctorate in snobbery I believe.
That's easy - one of everything!
Y'all have excellent taste in dealers, lol.
Cool coin! Weird story about the blinded Bulgarians. I suppose they should be thankful they didn't go up against Vlad the Impaler.
The die axis as in a clock, h = hour. 6h = 6 o'clock. A coin with 6h die axis has coin alignment, ie., if you hold the obverse up and flip the...
Another great thread idea! I love the idea of Annona as the personification of gluten, lol! Here's Artemis in two different aspects, on coins of...
So Pellinore is technically correct - the Bosporan issues are those of a Roman client kingdom, not provincials. So maybe we should include client...
Higher grade Seleucid bronze is tough, from any emperor, but it's out there. If the OP was a specialist looking for a particular date, $100 might...
It's a $50 coin at best. Nice coin though, but for $100 I would expect far more detail, a VF+ to EF example.
What's better than one coin from an obscure, forgotten city? Two coins from an obscure, forgotten city. Here is Hadrian, also from Acmoneia,...
Here's a case where coin evidence gives us information that we would not otherwise have about a very obscure, forgotten city. This is an issue of...
You really know how to pick 'em Ken!
The city of Attaleia was founded by Attalus II of Pergamon, around 150 BC. It is now Antalya, the fifth most populous city of Turkey. [ATTACH]...
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