I don't have any Commodus tets, but I do have a Virginia halfpenny (purchased from Ephesus Numismatics at the Baltimore show a couple of years...
This recent purchase was inexpensive, but it has a lot of history behind it. [ATTACH] Khwarezmshahs. "Malik of Kurzuwan." AE jital (3.5 g, 19...
I have this denarius of Octavian featuring a crazy spiral lituus: [ATTACH]
I saw this menu in a restaurant in Lima, Peru in 2011. See if you can spot the problems: [ATTACH]
Your photos are rather blurry, but what I can see is not encouraging. I would suggest a) taking better-focused photos, and then b) posting in the...
This is a bronze dichalkoi from Parthia (which controlled Persia for a couple of centuries during the time of the Roman Empire)- my avatar photo...
It's a Byzantine bronze follis, of the "Anonymous" type c.1000 AD. These can be attributed to specific emperors; if you post over on the Ancients...
This fake Parthian fooled me early in my numismatic career, and I've kept it ever since as a reminder to check every coin carefully: [ATTACH]...
Vespasian is one of my favorite emperors. Here's a bronze Alexandrine diobol of his featuring Isis on the reverse: [ATTACH]
Here's my biggest coin purchase of the last couple of months (in terms of value, coin weight, and adding a new area to my collection): [ATTACH]...
Well, I've never dreamed about eating my coins, but yes, I have had a few dreams featuring coins. Usually the dream is just me finding a bunch of...
Here's the first of my two wins from Frank Robinson's most recent auction: [ATTACH] Parthian Kingdom. AR drachm. Vologases IV (147-191 AD)....
It's a late Roman bronze coin of the emperor Constans (337-350 AD), part of the pre-reform bronze coinage issued 337-348 AD. Reverse shows two...
Here's my Trajan sestertius with Regna Adsignata reverse, posing alongside its description in Seth Stevenson's Dictionary of Roman Coins...
A bit hard to see, but from what I can see all of these look to be modern replicas. Worth maybe a few dollars total, as a curiosity.
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