Here's "Mr. Chunky", a dishekel from Sidon. I wonder how slot vending machines worked back then. Also, that chariot and driver must have been...
Speaking of owls with counterstamps, here one example that is currently on hold at Roma until the shipping situation, due to the pandemic, with RM...
From my perspective, your coin is authentic. It has the hallmarks: the style of the design elements are consistent with the period; there's...
That's a very nicely centered coin, with good preservation as well. It's hard to nail down a specific date. The eye is opening up, so that would...
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I find this practice of announcing the maximum book bid during a live auction reprehensible and unethical. I've attended both floor auctions,...
Arethusa ARETHUSA arose From her couch of snows In the Acroceraunian mountains; From cloud and from crag...
I took three years of French and barely remember anything, especially when it is being spoken. Tres Difficile!
I've done both. I have only sent a handful of coins for slabbing. Most of the ones I have came to me that way. I've cracked open slabs in...
Thank you all for this very informative chat. Is earring size another determinant of classification? I've noticed that the earring becomes...
Thank you. I guess I also need to get a copy of Flament's book. I do have a recent arrival, which, based on the information regarding Flament,...
Perhaps this example will serve as a useful nose guide/reference. Galba AD 68-69 Bronze As or Dupondius Obv. Laureate head right...
Here's a sestertius of Aurelian that I purchased in 1993, the year I got hitched. Roman Empire 274-275 AD Æ...
Speaking of family, and ancestry, Robert Graves had this to say about Livia and the Claudian Family Line: “Livia was of the Claudian family, one...
This coin postdates the Peloponnesian War by nearly 100 years, but it is in keeping with the general designs of Syracuse's dekadrachms. This is a...
Both renderings of Arethusa are magnificent and both coins are exemplary. Syracuse and other cities of Sicily employed die engravers that were...
Good luck, John. I'm currently treating a Cleopatra VII bronze. Apparently these bronzes are notoriously prone to bronze disease.
This is a coin that I posted a month or so ago. This is a fourré tetradrachm patterned on the Attica tetradrachm of the 4th century BC. It came...
20,000 Posts A stellar achievement, Of remarkable note - 20,000 posts! A number most remarkable, Exceeding a mortal's hopes – 20,000 posts!...
I've been going through my David Sear certificates (not too many, really), and he assigned one coin that I submitted for certification a Starr...
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