While I don't often find myself in disagreement with Doug's viewpoints, this is an exception where I agree with AncientJoe. Doug's blanket...
My sentiments exactly.
Good luck in your quest. Just remember when you finally acquire any of them, don't use Comic Sans when you post them here!
Uh, this comment about taste coming from someone who staged a diorama using toys, dolls and a stroller in Caesars Forum Shops in Las Vegas, the...
Ha! Very funny! Maybe I should have more appropriately used Times Roman font but there's something slightly anarchistic about Comic Sans and I...
Despite the connotations of his name, Marcus Junius Brutus wasn't a brute, and in fact is recorded by many historians as being too idealistic in...
I'm not sure how you may have gotten the impression that "the majority here... [are] coins snobs" but this forum is about as far away from being...
[ATTACH] I'm curious -- which of the two pictures above represents the color more accurately?
I think the theoretical answer to this challenge is eight coins, but there are multiple ways to do this, Here's one way (only one of these coins...
There's something inexplicably cool about having a 12 Caesars collection of all the same denomination, especially denarii. The whole is greater...
Neither Otho nor Julius Caesar issued bronze portrait coins through any mints that would be classified as "imperial" mints (i.e., listed in RIC)....
[ATTACH] No, this is not photoshopped. And she might not even be a chimera!
This coin suffers from a bit of a weak strike on the reverse: [ATTACH] VITELLIUS 69 A.D. AE Sestertius (29.78 g.) Rome Apr. - Dec. 69 A.D....
This is certainly an, ahem, unusual way of displaying this fairly high quality collection. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Their own description: "The...
I would think that his splitting an arrow fired at him, with one of his own arrows, would qualify as hitting a moving target? More on topic: I've...
I'm curious to hear more about why you like the branch mint bust design more than the Rome design. For example, is it because the bust itself is...
In my opinion, this is one of the two best Caligula reverses, the other being the three sisters reverse. The obverse portrait is also generally...
I share this same dupondius from my almost-complete 12 Caesars collection: [ATTACH] I'm still looking for the elusive Tiberius sestertius...
Are they all portrait coins? Feel free to start a thread and show them.
One of the first dual-portrait coins I acquired was Marc Antony and Cleopatra, a coin that's hard to find in perfect condition: [ATTACH] MARC...
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