It's been a couple of days now and I've stopped drooling over that Odoacer coin of @Valentinianvs so it's time to show the second best buy I've...
Hey VK: If I looked half as good as a guy as @TIF does even with a fake crab on her head I'd post a pic. But alas, that's not the case.
Obviously imitative, but that doesn't make them any less desirable. Quite an interesting lot of coins you bought. And BTW, really nice pic of a...
Bad question to ask on the ancient forum site. It's kind of like discussing American politics. Lots of passion on both sides.
To find an Odoacer with nearly full legend borders on the impossible. It takes a lot to make me jealous but that coin does it.
Thanks @Valentinian, I think we have to be careful on what we refer to as "imitative" or "barbarous" issues. We all know the types where the...
@Valentinian : I wrote to a well-known (unnamed) Byzantine expert in Europe and showed him the coin. He says that these are known for both...
My wife made me sit down with her last year and walk through the process of how to sell all my ancients if anything should happen to me. I had to...
One of the reasons I get to buy all these coins without the wife killing me is that I have no kids; not sure why but I like ancients better.
We've seen some Ostrogothic Kings, how about an Ostrogothic Queen for a change: [ATTACH] This is a AR half siliqua with monogram of Queen...
It should be imitative but the more I look at it the less I think it is. It isn't about anything but 25 years of looking at ancients. This one...
Here's an interesting piece from Aeolis: [ATTACH] Ox: Head of Athena r. Rx: AIGAEWN : Zeus standing, facing, radiate, holding eagle and staff;...
One of the fun things about forums like CoinTalk is that I go through boxes of coins I haven't looked at in many, many years to come up with an...
If the rest are anything like that posted coin that would be one heck of a find. As I said before these are tough to find and normally not in very...
Sorry VK. It was a long day yesterday. Up til 3am on Sunday night watching the NBA championship. Live in Orlando but I grew up in Cleveland.
Really nice for the type VK. In my experience these little bronze monogram issues are far scarcer than the Theodoric monograms found on AR issues...
As most everyone on this site knows I am not an advocate for grading ancients. The conditional grade that is shown is pretty much just the opinion...
Been there and done that. Believe me, you won't get another As for a while.
VK is right, it isn't a perfect fit for Athalaric but it's the closest match. There's also a Theodoric type that kind of, sort of, looks like...
The prevailing thought at the time I bought the coin was that it was Annius Verus, but that may certainly have changed. I just quickly went to CNG...
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