Here is an Eastern mint LEG XIIII which "Eastern-mint-Doug" might like: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Septimius Severus LEG XIII GEMM V TRP COS 19-18...
What a neat collecting theme! I don't recall a woodman's saw on any ancient coin, but there are axes. Here is a tiny one from Tenedos in Troas....
Carus, Carinus, and Numerian all minted at the Tripolis mint. Here is a site listing all the types from Tripolis (there are not many)....
Doug's Carus piece does a really nice job of showing him going bald. Not many emperors admitted to thinning hair!
Copper coins of Valens (AD 364-378) are some of the most common ancient coins of all. It is easy to find inexpensive AE3's in excellent condition....
Here are really good photos of the hoard: https://www.flickr.com/photos/finds/sets/72157662136312876
It's Commodus, not Marcus.
I have recently added numerous Roman, Greek, and Byzantine coins to my sale site: http://augustusmath.hypermart.net/coinlist.html I also added...
Baldwin's catalogs 90 and 96 had parts of the Sellwood collection, I believe. They are on-line but I want the paper copies anyway. Most collectors...
Australia = Montana when it comes to local dealers. There are very few ancient coins for sale within hundreds of miles. In the 1980's I relied on...
That catalog came out of a time machine! Check the postal date. Was it mailed in 1975?
Okay. I fixed the dead links Ken pointed out to me (in a CoinTalk personal message). Let me know if there are other dead links or sites I failed...
I have a website linking to places to buy ancient coins: http://augustusmath.hypermart.net/dealers.html The important sites are mentioned along...
The Daily Telegraph for Dec. 11, 2015 has an article...
"Physical books are so 20th century ;)" I suppose one could collect pictures of coins, instead of coins. Then you could have a beautiful...
I congratulate Cyrrhus on spending money on books. Books lead to knowledge (if you read them) and knowledge makes coins more interesting.
The people who attend an auction can look at both sides of all the coins in a large lot. If the firm does not picture both sides of all coins (and...
I thought I read recently that vcoins had 23,000 [Edit: corrected in the next post by Ken Dorney to 250,000] members, which I presume means people...
I wonder how many of us are young? If you collect ancient coins and are under 30, let us know.
Here is a small Greek fractional silver from Ephesos with the usual symbols of the city, the bee and stags (stags are associated with Diana, and...
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