Great coin, and I'll take your abridged history over Oliver Stone's gawd-awful monstrosity any day.
My apologies sir, I didn't intend to sound like I was lecturing you. I do look forward very much to reading your page, but it will have to wait...
Impatience, on your part. That's an intense thread, with copious information. I've been following it, and commend your excellent work. But you...
Possibly a fouree core or a bronze antoninianus of unofficial issue. There's no way of knowing whether it was meant to deceive, or officially...
We're coin collectors. We don't know the answers to such riddles.
This is a job for Guido!
Great coin Z! I like this engraver's style. It's somewhat unusual for the series, don't you think? There's something slightly archaic about it.
Great coin! You know what they say about socialism though: it works great until you run out of other people's wives.
That's a very difficult type to find with such abundance of detail, excellent centering, and complete lettering. Great find! I would have bought...
A very engaging read and wonderful coins, Ides! Kudos and thank you for an excellent thread.
What blasphemy is this?! :D
Great coin! Some people may not realize that if you want a portrait coin of Alexander III, you need a tet of Lysimachus, NOT Alexander III. The...
And last but not least is this 2006 edition of the Cambridge Dictionary of Classical Civilization. Only 996 pages. If I study one page per day,...
So my wife and I were driving through a small town in PA a couple of days ago and came across a used bookstore. We dropped in on a whim. They had...
Nice catch on the Albinus, although his bust is so different from SS that I don't know how anyone can confuse the two, even without reading the...
Right next to the Ark of the Covenant.
Cybele will pomp yoo ahp! It may be just a trick of the sand patina, but here’s a muscular version of Cybele on a pseudo-autonomous issue of Sala....
For some mysterious reason, your name got deleted from the auction list. I've reinstalled you. Apologies!
Singara was a heavily-fortified city in northern Mesopotamia, and the outpost of Legio I Parthica. It was first taken by Trajan, and later became...
Side is an ancient Greek city on the southern coast of Turkey, one of the country’s most renowned classical sites. The name of the city may be...
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