It's an excellent coin with superb detail, but it is not a denarius. The denarius was long out of issue when these bronze coins were struck. The...
I love the Dribbling Larissa coins! Great score!
If you were to call any Sicilian coins common, it would be these Hieron II issues with the bust of Poseidon on the obverse and his trident on the...
SNG ANS assigned them to Agathokles. Current scholarship says Hieron II. It would seem to me that the IE in exergue is obvious: IEPΩNOΣ. See one...
Well since Hercules and Zeus seem to be the theme, here's a tet I recently acquired for the wild obverse double-strike and oversized flan... [ATTACH]
Salutes to you and your son JW! I have a son that wants to join the military, so we're just at the beginning of this journey.
I love the ancient image from the Dancer's Tomb on a modern coin. It's very faithfully rendered.
Yes, probably a wreath, but I like Steve's theory better.
Looks like edge ornamentation but I've never seen a pattern like that on an ancient coin - only dots or lines. Very interesting.
I identify as the tooth fairy.
Nice! The Akragans sure loved their crabs.
Wonderful coins, congratulations!
I love seeing a variety collection like that. Excellent work!
Great coin ro - the bust of Augustus is super!
The strike on the reverse is exceptional, and it's struck from very fresh dies. I would have jumped on that coin any day of the week. Gordian III...
I generally don't buy LRB's unless they can be fully attributed, but I find Bruck valuable as a list of varieties: who minted which types and...
Beautiful coins Martin, and everyone! This is another wonderful LRB series to collect, with many varieties, mints, and styles. Here are four from...
That last pic looks pretty damn good. I've all but given up trying to get images of silver coins that actually please me. For whatever reasons,...
As TIF says, the obverse is double-struck. Also, this is a Laodicea ad Mare issue, during that city's brief tenure as an Imperial mint, so the...
I'd also like to add my recommendation for a rather dry, factual book, at the other end of Roman history: Klaus Bringham's A History of the Roman...
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