Here's a coin purchased back in 2017 from VCoins. It was listed as an Athenian tetradrachm from the period of 353-294 BCE, and the obverse...
The portrait sort of looks like an attempt to copy one of Caracalla.
Both coins are very nice examples. Clearly two engravers were involved. The portrait on the first coin is less skillfully done, same for the...
That's a very interesting coin. The Romans, upon seeing this coin likely exclaimed "Oh my Goth!" Could the engraver's intention be to suggest...
That's a really nice portrait of Probus on the second coin.
This coin was posted before. It is a Parthinian tetradrachm of Orodes II, Seleukia on the Tigris, 57-38 BCE. The reverse commemorates his...
Those are wonderful examples.
The flan is very odd, looks machine-made. Odd modeling, ditto for the letters of the legend. That line below the M on the reverse is wrong....
I think one factor is inflation. Rome certainly experienced it, especially in the later years of the empire, resulting in increasingly debased...
A beautiful example.
Those are beautiful images of the solar system and cosmos.
Asian art, prints and various minerals...the great accumulator! Some recent acquisitions - [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Sometimes a coin comes around that causes everything to click. This is one such coin, an imitative Attica tetrdrachm that I believe is from Gaza....
Here's and interesting AE Dirhem of Urtukids of Maridin, Nasir al-Din Urtuk Arslan (1201-1239), showing a centaur preparing to shoot an arrow into...
I found out that private companies, such as Fedex and DHL, must file a detailed customs form (Entry Summary) with Customs and Border Protection....
That's odd. It really doesn't make sense (no pun intended). I just received an item from Boston last weekend. The prohibition must apply to...
Ah yes....I do get the "point".
No, I am not saying that there should be a prohibition on the private ownership of antiquities. What I am saying is that the process of discovery...
Oh yes, very much. They are capable of almost everything, ranging from love, to jealousy, to hatred, to revenge - the whole range of behavior...
Yes, and a provenance is very important. A major problem over the past decade has been the theft of artifacts in Syria, Iraq, Yemen....
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