I've wondered this myself. Did they chisel them and sit and make each nick by hand? My understanding is that the point of the serrating was to...
Beautiful OP coin @Al Kowsky!! I'm gonna need to wear one of my babies bibs to avoid drooling all over my phone:hungry: [ATTACH] C....
Man, I love what you said about not being proud about some coins boring you. I thought this was a shame to be carried alone, silently. Like when...
Sensational photo!!!:woot: In awe, truly. I need to save up and legitimize my coins with some descent photos. But boy-O, your photography makes...
What a fun thread to dig up! For doing me the favor I will tell you it says right above the post that it was @dougsmit. Seeing some of these...
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[ATTACH] Just speechless. Beautiful coin @Terence Cheesman! A true honor to squeak by you.
...never gonna break the tie being banished to the dreaded...2nd page!!!:nailbiting:
Naw. Many, including myself, find the dark toning desirable. I'm down like Charlie Brown for that there coin:woot:
Looks Islamic to my not very learned eye. Someone with a passion for this type will swing in to answer in a bit I'm sure. Very cool design,...
Not if I can help it! Haha. They say a tie is like kissing your cousin. Which I know plenty about. The tie part, not the kissing cousins...
Haha! per usual, TIF beat me to pointing something out...the wig:banghead::p
Way to go ominuthalymus!:woot: Great looking portrait with a wonderful view of the rug (I'm sure you know that Otho is known to have worn a hair...
Just awestruck. Truly one of the greatest stories of an ancient coin that I've heard. You say last time it was for sale was the 90s...now we know...
Congrats on the saweet new (previously owned) Vespy! One of my favorite emperors and a true good ol boy of Rome. Here are mine: [ATTACH]...
Neat-O! I love it when coin shops carry good looking ancients (I like it even more when the poor coins aren't locked up behind plastic). That...
What a beautiful portrait of "little boots"! And I don't recognize that reverse...speaking of reverses, do you own that coin you have as your...
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Sadly, I missed out on the 70s by about a year and a half. Gladly, I'll share some ancients with hats that would make moderns laugh! [ATTACH]...
Apollo has done this same thing to me...more than once [ATTACH] Antiochos II Theos 261-246 BCE Obverse: Laureate head of Apollo Reverse: Tripod...
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