I think your obverse picture is upside down. There should be a portrait of a Zeus on the obverse.
Nice obverse portrait but I have never seen anything like it before. The little counterstamped symbol below Hercules on the reverse also looks...
For me the coins always lead to books and interest in the historical period.
Nice herd of goats Bing. I like the biga. My wife's family has an old photo with a girl being pulled in a cart by two large goats. John
For people arriving late, there was an ongoing joke in the ancients forum that Gordian III coins were as common as cockroaches. This does not...
There are a lot of days left in the year, and I hope to get some more coins in the mail soon. Not to jinx it or anything. Are most people done...
This is actually an easy contest, nothing subtle or advanced about it. :-)
You can train them to do anything for a sandwich.
OK, here is one: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1525607 Things are looking better for this being an authentic Roman coin of Hadrian....
That would be a reference to Neptune, the guy with the trident on the reverse? I did not see a published example with that legend, but I did not...
Also look at: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3434015 There is no "REP - REO" legend on either issue. Jacob is correct that the style...
I am pretty sure it is a reproduction of this Hadrian As: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1168742 It says "REP - REO" on the reverse....
My wife comes in to see what I am doing. After a lengthy explanation of the context for the joke, she says, "Well, this is not the craziest thing...
I really like the design of this coin and was really thrilled to find this one in very good condition and at a reasonable price. These are...
I left my sandwich out on the counter for 15 minutes while reading CoinTalk. When I came back I found it was swarming with roaches! Look at the...
Separate names with a comma.
