(Edit: Misread a question, ignore!)
I believe this is an example of the variety with a Serapis bust. If mine were one of these, I think it would still be visible:...
Well, that’s very interesting and exciting! Shame it’s pretty worn and somewhat overcleaned, but none of the other photographed ones look too...
I saw this on eBay, generically described as a 'Roman Alexandrian Drachm' or some such. Not recognizing the reverse, and seeing that it was pretty...
Very interesting coins and stories. One wonders about the lost stories, too; I have several coins that I am certain came from old collections, but...
I just turned 23, and I've been collecting ancients pretty regularly for the past couple years, and sporadically before that. I don't know anyone...
I wish I could take pictures as beautifully as some of you do! Although I guess I don't do too badly with just an iPhone and desk lamp. Anyway,...
I know it’s pretty rough, but I’ve been curious about getting my hands on one of these for a while, and the price was right. Lots of them look way...
Here's one issued by the same moneyer as @Alegandron's coin: L. Rubrius Dossenus. He was a loyalist of Sulla during Sulla's first civil war, and...
There's already a couple like it in this thread, but I haven't gotten to show this coin here yet: [ATTACH] M. Sergius Silus, 116 BC I don't...
Here's a new acquisition that's been soaking in distilled water for the past few weeks due to some minor bronze disease (the remaining green...
I've got entirely too many hobbies, which some people tell me are too much like work and that I need to relax. Lately I've been hunting for...
@ominus1, yes, that’s where it came from. I missed out on the identified overstrikes but this is a nice consolation.
[ATTACH] I’ve been hoping to get a visible Punic War overstrike for a while now, but it’s always eluded me. So imagine my surprise when I...
Here's a Morrow Mountain type point, made of quartz, found in the southeastern US, which dates to about ~4000 BC, give or take a millennium....
You know, until @Ken Dorney mentioned it, I didn't even think to look at the dates on the stamps. Most of them are from 1982! Very interesting.
Just received today, in an envelope with lots of interesting stamps. The most expensive coin I've ever bought, but it was well worth saving up for...
Surprised by how many people here have studied Latin. Even among ancients collectors, I figured that was more unusual, not to mention all of the...
I think it should stretch from the earliest coinage all the way up to the end of hammered coinage in the 1500s or so. While the coins change a lot...
It's a fouree, but here's a deer biga! [ATTACH] Anonymous Republican Denarius, fouree Obverse: Helmeted head of Roma right; behind, X. Reverse:...
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