Excellent coin with a well-told story. I always appreciate CoinTalk coins more when they have the story told with them. Ancient coins connect us...
Look at the color/surface of the Hanniballian mentioned in the original post. It is dark, smooth, and does not look hard. That is a surface that...
I like coins of Panticipaeum (spelled various ways) and the Kingdom of the Bosporus (= Bosporos). Perhaps my favorite is this big type [ATTACH]...
I have added some interesting and valuable ancient-coin books to my site: http://augustusmath.hypermart.net/numislit.html [This first time I...
It is really "Williams Gallery" 59715 Also, the Google map is wrong. It is half a block south of Main St. on S. Tracy (two blocks east and 2...
Some European sellers add, to all those fees discussed above, 3.5% for paying with PayPal, or a credit card. They expect a bank transfer, which I...
My page: http://esty.ancients.info/catalogs/GreekAE.html notes two sales of Virzi coins: Leu 6 (5/73) HV. MQP. "Sammlung Tom Virzi, New...
I have a friend, Dan Clark, who collected early Byzantine copper coins with the unusual feature that above the normal bust right was a cross not...
Previous posters are right. The unbroken legend makes it Valentinian II. Is it not in King's volume 5 of Roman Silver Coins? (I am away from my...
4to2centBC, thanks for posting the photos. If any of you ever get to Cambridge, England, there is a relatively unknown large gallery there, not...
I see that as of yesterday (March 24, 2016) acsearch.com https://www.acsearch.info/ no longer gives prices realized without a paying subscription...
Here's my she-wolf pediment: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Apparently several of us have this type in high grade.
If I might bid on a coin, you won't hear about it until after I have won it, if I do, and it has arrived in the mail. I don't want to drive up...
How about this one? Do you recognize what it could have been? [ATTACH] It was issued at Alexandria (ALE) by Domitius Domitianus. The eagle is...
See Type 52 on the page about AE types from RIC IX: http://esty.ancients.info/ricix/ It likes the OP coin has a legend break -VS which belongs...
On this site about Christian types http://esty.ancients.info/Christian/ChristianSymbols.html the Helena and Theodora are in Table 2 near the...
The left one is Helena.
Here is mine. This thread has illustrated the profile severed head nicely (especially Carthago's piece and Doug's second piece). [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I always appreciate Doug's descriptions of his thought processes. Thanks for telling us about the show.
FEL TEMP REPARATIO is a very common late Roman legend, but less so on coins of Magnentius. Here is a "galley" type: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] 23 mm....
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