On posts #3 and #4, I think the image would be better with the light coming in from about 1 o'clock, rather than the hard right direction used....
Thanks Doug. My blunder. I failed to notice that the thrust was to Greek coins.
WOW!!!
[ATTACH] Maximinus I. 235-238 AD. THRACE, Anchialus. Æ (26mm, 12.24 gm, 1h). Obv: Laureate and draped bust right. Rev: Ares standing facing, head...
[ATTACH] Agrippa. Died 12 BC. Æ As (28mm; 10.38gm; 6h). Struck under Gaius Caligula, 37-41 AD. Obv: M • AGRIPPA • L • F • COS • III • , head left,...
[ATTACH] Ptolemy XII Neos Dionysos, father of Cleopatra VII. 80-51 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm; 12.57 gm; 12h). Alexandria mint. Dated RY 28 (54/3...
Didn't work for me. Getting old. :(
Thanks everyone on the answers to the "bell" question.
Two Geta examples: Geta. As Caesar, 198-209 AD. AR Denarius (3.59 gm). Rome mint. Struck 200-205 AD. Obv: Bareheaded and draped bust right. Rev:...
I've wondered for quite sometime what the significance of the bell hanging under the neck of those elephants mean. The bells show up fairly...
Great! Thanks, Ryro!
But no pictures of the coins? Maybe I don't know what to click on.
And a slightly clearer one: [ATTACH] Elagabalus. 218-222 AD. Nicopolis, Moesia Inferior; Æ 26. Obv: His radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust,...
Also: [ATTACH] Septimius Severus. 193-211 AD. Nicopolis, Moesia Inferior; Æ25. Obv: (AVT Λ CEΠT) - CEVHP ΠEP; His laur. head r. Rev: VΠ AVP...
There are bears, too! See: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=902244
[ATTACH] Vespasian. 69-79 AD. AR Denarius (19mm; 3.25 gm; 5h). Rome mint. Struck 77-78 AD. Obv: Laureate head right. Rev: Sow standing left with...
Just wonderful, Jochen! It is true NUMISMATISTS like you who expand the boundaries of knowledge for us all.
[ATTACH] Neapolis, Macedon; 411- 348 B.C.; AR Hemidrachm (14mm; 1.78 gm; 9h). Obv: Gorgon's head facing, with tongue protruding. Rev: ΝΕΟΠ; Young...
QUOTE from Ryro: Seleukid Kingdom. Uncertain (military) mint 60. 223-187 BC. Struck 202-187 BC Bronze Æ 17mm., 4,60g. Macedonian shield with...
[ATTACH] Antiochos III, "The Great." 223-187 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.56 gm, 12h, 30mm). Antioch on the Orontes mint, circa 223-213 BC. Obv:...
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