Nice coin @Mikey Zee! Love the wear, good portrait. Missing from my collection is a lifetime issues of Sulla as Dictator, I need one!
Great coin!! I have most of the aes grave denominations, but am missing a teruncius. Lucky you to have acquired one!
Here's a Post-Reform Quadrans that is part of the Star series of Roman Republic struck coinage. [ATTACH] 169-158 B.C. Rome Mint, Anonymous Issue...
A stunning coin! Takes your breath away, doesn't it?
Gosh, I feel like I am at a coin museum. Wonderful coins everyone!
The legends are clear, it's well centered (though not perfect) and well detailed. Why is it considered "very crude hammered"? I think it is...
@ValiantKnight I am attending a 5-day ANA workshop in June, to learn about the Byzantines and their coinage. So I might end up a fan!
I primarily collect coins of the Roman Republic coins, which are getting very popular and the price is being driven up. So I was hoping to branch...
This coin has such historical appeal, I think it was a great capture! Egypt was the last major obstacle for Octavian.
My three-bust example. [ATTACH]
I am reading a Short History of Byzantium, but am finding it slow going...it is one pillaging/rape/murder after another.
I am impressed, never seen that coin before!
I second that!
Beautiful coin!
I think an interactive map where we all supply a coin is a fantastic idea, but have no photo editing skills to offer. Here's an anonymous...
The reverse of this denarius has a lot of graffiti and there is a teensy edge crack, but who wouldn't want a coin issued by Cassius? At least it...
Here are my 2 RR denarii from 132 BC. [ATTACH] P Maenius M f Antiaticus [ATTACH] M. Aburius M.f. Geminus
I also see a feather. While it is possible that the celator use the symbol of an As accidentally and then add feathering to change the look...
Hmmm...is she trying to trade away Bing or his coins?
I am just starting to collect Byzantine, but even I can tell this is a beauty!
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