Well, better late than never... Over a year ago a purchased a couple of bulk lots of some pretty nice Byzantine bronzes. I got most of them...
It is quite a muddle with this dynasty.
I was going to say a banker's graffiti on the neck, but on closer examination of the photo the apparently raise edges make it look almost as if...
No, that portrait is that of Ptolemy XII. The coins of the Ptolemaic Dynasty, on male side, displayed a generally strong similarity of portrait...
Ptolemy XII, whose full name was Ptolemy XII Neos Dionysos Philopator Philadelphos, and commonly known to as Auletes (Greek for "The Flautist",...
A very impressive collection!
Agree - leave the coin alone and let time even the color.
Wavy flans occur quite frequently with coinage from this period, mostly due to the very thin flans. That's a beautiful gold angel!
Here's an example to illustrate the final point, a tetradrachm from Lucania, Thurium, southern Italy, 443-400 BC: [ATTACH]
The profile eye pi-style owls are a fascinating group to collect, and relative to the archaic style eye, offer better value. If you're patient you...
Both coins have an earthy, dark patina. I wonder if they came out of a hoard. This type is pretty rare.
Nice po Nice portrait!
Thanks Roman Empire, 71 AD Orichalcum Sestertius Vespasian (69-79 CE) Judaea Capta RIC 167, Sear 2327 Good VF/VF Indications of re-patination...
I have a nice Vespasian Judaea Capta to post, following Vitellius of course. Please do. I have a Vespasian I'd like to post....
And by the third century it's going to be one giant Maesa!
I think there is the real possibility, too, that the sequence of the more common emperors and empresses might get a little jumbled up, as posts...
This is very intense...by the end of the first century AD I think I'm going to lose my Nerva!
This coin is an impulse purchase, fueled by a price markdown, which took the price from stratospheric to somewhere at cruising altitude for most...
It looks like a Guatemala cob that has been around the block innumerable times. The hole was probably there for a considerable amount of time....
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