I know the handshake motif was used on several Roman coins. Given that the Phrygian piece is from the same general era, and, after all, has Roma...
They’re BOTH dreamy! :greedy:
You’ve got a piece of one of the truly legendary shipwrecks there. And no doubt you didn’t have to pay the eye watering price an SS Central...
Thanks for the update! Enjoy it! :)
True, some sea-salvaged gold does get encrusted as a result of the seawater interacting with the base metals the coins were alloyed with. One of...
… and back to coins: do you have any aureii from the Boscoreale treasure?
Do you have to have special humidity controls and such? Aren’t butterfly specimens very delicate?
More amazing gold for a bunch of dead bugs! Hahaha! ;) So was that it for the butterfly collection?
Group lots of old 17th-18th century coppers? Less than a buck a coin? What’s not to like there? Good cheap (and educational) fun. Can’t beat that!
This recent purchase is my first Young Head Victoria sovereign and also my first Shield type sovereign. It also fulfills another item I’ve been...
@Hiddendragon - my apologies, but I let a week slip past me without shipping your coin. It goes out today, August 14th.
Here’s the gallery with individual photos, though as of this posting I have not yet added the more recently purchased Julius Caesar and Vitellius...
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