Thanks for letting us hear about the show. If anyone else goes to a show, tell us the story of how it went. I love shows but get to on average...
On the web there is a bibliography of works on Nabatean coins http://www.vincentwest.org.uk/nabatea/bibatoz.htm
I think the surface condemns it as fake. The roughness is of an unusual quality and the reverse almost bows out, where bowing in slightly would be...
I like the distinctive nose of Constantine from the Antioch mint. That's a really nice coin.
I agree with the responders who ask you to imagine your feelings if you bid x and lose by a small amount. If you feel that x+10% is too much for...
Maximinus Thrax, Roman emperor 235-238, was a giant--the tallest and strongest man in the empire. His denarii have three distinct portrait styles....
Big coins are impressive. If you want a huge ancient coin, there are some very large Ptolemaic pieces, 40 mm or even larger (here is one CoinTalk...
I am confident, even from a fuzzy photo, that it is fake. The letters are far too thick. It is not even very deceptive. Don't spend money...
Some metal detectorists in Jersey found a ton (really!) of Celtic coins (maybe 70,000 pieces) which are all stuck together. Cleaning is beginning:...
For coins of that time period, consider using this site: http://esty.ancients.info/ricix/ on the AE coins of RIC IX (Valentinian I and later, AD...
I recently bought this Galerius follis which was misdescribed as a Maximianus: [ATTACH] 28-26 mm. 9.66 grams. Yes, the legend says...
I said the body and head don't belong together and now I see the Met says they do (Thanks, Doug). Some ancient statues do have the head-to-body...
Maybe a moderator could correct the misspelling in the title of this thread. He meant "provincials".
It took me a while to learn to hold down a click to make it advance and to click again to stop it before the questions went by and off the screen....
It is Theodosius I, type 16 on the web site: http://esty.ancients.info/ricix/ The Gratian, with the globe left instead of right, is type 15.
The head did not belong to that statue, but was found separately and added to a headless body later. Statues often come with the the heads broken...
The author of ERIC II, Ras Suarez, blogged on rarity: http://dirtyoldcoins.com/Roman-Coins-Blog/?m=201407 It is a difficult topic. I responded...
Thank you very much for the link. I did not find an example for my page on the AE attributed to him: http://esty.ancients.info/ricix/type50.html I...
There are also interesting coins of Julia Domna in the Roman provincial series. For example: [ATTACH] 29 mm. Struck at Prusa ad Olympum, Bithynia...
That is a great site. In the old days it would have taken years to learn what that site illustrates.
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