Great point @red_spork and @Roman Collector. I totally had my head in the sand thinking of RRs as those are the only coins with mercury(HERMES)...
Talk about arriving in style!:cool::pompous: What a way to kick off the hobby.
The obverse is very recognizable, thanks to my love of republic coins, as Mercury wearing that wacky winged hat of his. But the reverse is a head...
[ATTACH] Me in my best grizzled ol Mick voice, "you're doing good kid. SA admitted defeat in the looks category. But he's trying to come on...
Thanks! @ancientcoinguru sure did an awesome job on her write-up...mine might have slightly gone over some copyright infringement lines. Hehe....
:banghead: Wrong on both accounts! Welp, ya can't win if you don't play folks.
Thanks for sharing the BEAUTIFUL art of that AWESOME artist! admittedly (and embarrassedly) I recognized the name Robert Graves but knew not from...
I really like the patina on both. I'm gonna guess Tiberius with the SC reverse and Domitian with the clasped hands?
...though admittedly, I didn't notice the copy and paste job and had assumed this a very well thought out essay:facepalm:
I'm with @TIF. Except my vote for history went Jays ways. I've read up on it and DO believe this to be made by THE Brutus. Rightly or wrongly, the...
Nice looking portrait!...and the crusader coins are pretty cool as well...I guess;)
Epic! ...though it looks like you've got something on your shoulder:facepalm:
No freaking idea here! Just beautiful stuff. I'm gonna have to quote Keanu... [ATTACH]
Great stuff right there! Super jealous of that Marc Antony and Octavian. How could I forget to add the Augustus/Agrippa alligator?? That's one of...
They really hate being separated but ok here they are all by themselves... [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] AGRIPPA Died 12 BC. Æ As (29mm, 11.09 gm)....
Yessir. On all 3! I know I took the reverse pics at the time...but where did I put them?
I second that! WOWiE!! Fantastic portrait of Pomps. They say he even styled his hair after Alexander the Great. You can get a good feel for the...
On September 3rd (Today:woot:) 36 BCE, in the Battle of Naulochus, Octavian's right hand man and General, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa defeats Sextus...
Dang @Clavdivs I'm super jealous! I love Caligula (one of my favorite of the good guy emperors;)). Leave it up to @Roman Collector to ID a reverse...
One of my favorite coins (which is probably why it was the coin I played in the 1st round of @Curtisimo's 2018 cointest)! [ATTACH] MACEDONIAN...
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