My favorite coin portrait would have to be this as of Claudius that I got in a Nomos Auction, which was my first auction house purchase. I only...
Thanks to everyone who gave me advice, especially to those who pointed out how easy it is to remove this sort of mount. I can report that it went...
@Andrew McCabe has classified these anonymous Republican AE coins in more detail than was provided by Crawford. To my eyes a lot of the categories...
The Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius denarius from the same seller looks a little mushy to me, but it could just be the photograph. When it...
I didn't know about this auction until today, and much of my budget is being saved for upcoming auctions ending in the next couple of weeks....
Beautiful coins! I do not believe the second coin is tooled. The artistic style is unusual, but I think it is typical of the time and place. It...
The mount isn't too old; it's marked STER (sterling) and has a copyright mark of some sort on it, so I would guess that it's fairly recent....
Dropped mine in the mail today. Exciting!
I got this Faustina Senior in the mail today, my first denarius with an empress on the obverse, something which had been on my want list for a...
For what it's worth, I've also noticed that some auction houses photograph their coins in such a way that emphasizes their roughness beyond what...
Entry post! Looks like an interesting book and coin.
I could probably showcase most of my collection on this thread. Every coin I buy (and I guess it's this way for any ancient collector) is a...
I'm a bit late to the party, but here's something a bit different. Even though I've been expanding my collection of Alexandrian coins, the only...
This will be my first time participating in Secret Saturnalia, so I'm pretty excited to see how it goes! I hope to get my surprise package out...
I love to see coins being shared in an educational setting. It's how I first got interested in ancient coins myself, and my collection began with...
I think you and I have similar taste in coins. I have found that the denarii of the Roman Republic and very early Empire have a lot of very...
I wish that there was a volume like @halfcent1793 showed for ancient coins. I have several envelopes with known provenances covered in writing I...
The only broken coin I have is this Augustus denarius. I got it at a very good price considering the condition of the rest of the coin....
I got this beauty some time ago from @Gavin Richardson. It deserves a better photograph than I have the skill or equipment to give it, but it...
I love the idea of provenances, even if I don’t have very many coins with them. Even though the coins themselves already offer a fantastic...
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