Great coins, OP & others. It was an interesting auction - someone drew my attention to it the day before - I'd looked before and totally...
A pity about NYINC :( It looks like the London Coin Fair on 7th November is still scheduled - have to book in advance:...
These patterns are not a sign of fakery, but of crystallisation, a process which normally takes centuries or millenia, but could be speeded up by...
It appears to be back - try again. I assume they'll redo lot one.
I used to collect more Celtic coins, but the only ones I've got recently that could be lumped in the Celtic category are Eraviscan coins. Here's...
Here's a Celtic tetradrachm of Noricum. Obv. Male head left, three-line wreath Rev. Horse left, ca 1st century BC Wt./Size/Axis: 9.05g / 21mm / -...
For the last couple of years, CNG have been shipping coins to me in Ireland via their London office and charge 5% import fees. Before that, they...
Here's a fourrée Caligula denarius, which would be quite nice except for the big hole through it :) Obv. C CAESAR AVG GERM P M TR POT COS - Bare...
This is a dupondius with Nemesis reverse I've had for a few years - it came in a CGB group lot of Hadrian middle bronzes in 2013 and is my...
CNG is a good place to search. The legend on your coin is Greek, making it a drachm, it's of Hadrian and the reverse features a capricorn. So,...
It's a Hadrian drachm - https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=62484
Well the Indian imitative aureus I posted is gold - CNG sell them from time to time, though the prices are generally higher than they were 10...
Worn Darics were plentiful and cheap last year, maybe they still are - Darius I - Xerxes II - 8.3g and less than £320 inc. buyer's fee from Roma...
Indeed the first Roman silver coins were probably struckly at Metapontum and to Magna Graecia didrachm weight standards and are heftier than the...
Here's my Cr. 206/1 [IMG] I like RR coins... [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] ATB, Aidan.
I forgot to count a currency bar fragment, so I guess it's 705 and I have a few not on Tantalus, so maybe 710, it's hard to be exact. No, it's...
#700 I updated my list of Roman Republican coins last night and realised that I'm up to 704 of them on Tantalus - this was number 700 - not much...
Hehe - this reminds me on this song, whose opening line describes this coin (the group has been described as "post-grunge", whatever that means -...
Here's one with a statue on the reverse: Denarius of P. Accoleius Lariscolus Obv. P.ACCOLEIVS / LARISCO(LVS) - Draped bust of Diana Nemorensis...
This is the list of articles - mostly in Italian: Author Year Pages Title Alfieri, N. 1978 VII Un nuovo vaso attico con Teseo e il toro...
Separate names with a comma.
