I've always liked these, and have been tempted to bid on them at auctions from time to time: Kingdom of Lydia. Croesus. 555/4-541/0 BC. AV Stater...
AUGUSTUS AV Aureus (7.90 g.) Lugdunum circa 11 - 10 B.C. RIC 196 AVGVSTVS - DIVI-f Laureate head right. Rev. IMP - XII Diana, wearing polos and...
TIBERIUS 42 B.C. - 37 A.D. AV Aureus (7.64 g.) Lugdunum (Lyon) 18-35 A.D. RIC 29 Obv. TI CAESAR DIVI AVG F AVGVSTVS laureate large head r....
Somewhat surprisingly, my limited collection of 43 coins has 7 coins minted in Lugdunum (including my avatar). All have been posted here before,...
I think the attribution of RIC 17 is incorrect, at least according to my copy of RIC Volume II Part I Second Fully Revised Edition. It actually...
Mint state ancient denarii are very, very rare. This coin is about as close as I've come to a mint state denarii: CASSIUS AR Denarius (3.85 gm.)...
2013 was a sparse year for my collection. I was on the hunt for eight coins needed to complete my 12 Caesars (one each of as/dupondius,...
[ATTACH] Well, the obverse portrait on this coin is so cool that it would have been my #1 from your list of five, although the Sikyon Chimera...
There's a coincidence. I grew up on the Main Line, in Penn Valley.
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It's not clear why "young collectors" should be either a necessary or sufficient condition for the hobby of collecting ancient coins to survive...
Actually, I'm not. While the example I gave is certainly a rare coin that's likely to become more desirable in the future, I can find no...
Recent price history of ancient coins -- Roman and Greek coins sold at published auctions -- doesn't support this statement. In fact, just the...
So, dougsmit, what was your very first ancient coin?
At an NAC auction in May of this year, a Titus sestertius was offered with "its original lustre exactly as it would have appeared in Rome in the...
Didn't realize how many of these I had: Marc Antony & Cleopatra denarius: [ATTACH] Marc Antony & Octavian aureus: [ATTACH] Domitian &...
Let's be candid here: we've all bought coins at an auction, or based on a picture, or recommended by someone else, that at first we didn't like as...
TITUS 69 - 79 A.D. AR Denarius (3.31 g.), Rome 80 A.D. IMP TITVS CAES VESPASIAN AVG PM Laureate head of Titus right. Rev. TR P IX IMP XV COS VIII...
Not 100% sure if this qualifies as a building, but the coin makes it appear that way: [ATTACH] CLAUDIUS 10 B.C. - 54 A.D. AV Aureus (7.79 g.)...
As portrayed in the great BBC series I Claudius, Tiberius only wanted to be a general and was very much in love with his wife Vipsania. Augustus,...
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