Here's yet another coin awaiting shipment. This one has Ares or Mars on the obverse and Hera on the reverse, purchased as a unsold lot recently....
I really don't know a whole lot about these cast coins. I have a couple for "type", and I was wondering if you could help me with the attribution...
That's a very nice addition to your collection. Do you specialize in early Roman cast coinage?
Over the better part of my life I have had to deal with depression. The reasons for this are manifold and I do not intend to delve into that...
I'm afraid, due to my upbringing, the scope of the music that I like to listen to when reading, writing, studying coins, making labels,...
I was wondering why NGC returned a Vespasian sestertius to me a couple of years ago with "no decision". What does that mean? It seems to be a...
I'm still looking through the roman coins for a candidate, but I came across this Celtic tetradrachm. As you know, the Celts are renowned for the...
Those are two very nice examples. The reverse on your first coin shows the horses rearing as they gallop forward, giving the feeling of motion....
What's up is that you have one excellent coin!
Beautiful examples!
Great examples, all! Thank you for your posts. Here's a coin "in the pipeline", waiting for the situation to improve with the Royal Mail, I hope...
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Well, according to Robert Graves (I Claudius, and Claudius The God), Tiberius, who reluctantly became emperor following Augustus' death, became...
The beat goes on. Here are two more folles. The first coin, the one on the left, is a follis of Heraclius (610-641 AD). This coin depicts,...
Very nice patina!
Here's one other example, this one depicting Constantine IV with a beard. It was purchased at about the same time as the first example....
Here's a coin that I purchased from Harlan Berk back in the early 90s (that's as close I can get without resorting to carbon 14 dating). It is a...
Normally I do not buy coins based on the animals depicted on them. Every now and then there's a nice example of Pegasus on a stater of Corinth,...
One other note. Here's a photo of the coin market at Charing Cross Road, London. It is held on Saturday on one level of a parking garage not too...
I have always thought of dreams as windows on the subconscious, mixed with current events in one's life, perhaps even some elements of a Marx...
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