Definitely not my area of collecting but nice coins all.
A wonderful addition!
I started collecting ancients in April 2015. I have since added 32 ancient coins to my collection. My focus is from the imperatorial period to...
Beautiful coin David. Great pickup. Here are my favourite coins of Vespasian. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Deleted because @Bing just posted the research gate info I had posted.
Why yes @Bing, I can in fact imagine the difficulties. I did not say it would be easy I just said it would be interesting. While very few people...
Sorry, I do not know the answer to that one. I do know, however, that it would make a very interesting PhD dissertation. Can you imagine "The...
Suetonius said that Julius Caesar "...appointed special slaves over the mints and public revenues". (Suetonius as cited in "A Dictionary of Roman...
According to Thomas Burns (2003) in "Rome and the Barbarians, 100 B.C.-A.D. 400", "Shifts of carefully supervised slaves were set to the task of...
Since they do not guarantee authenticity, I see no reason to slab an ancient coin. I have bought two coins in slabs and have busted them both out...
Nice elephant JA. I also like the Titus. Here is my quite worn JC denarius (which you have all seen before). I love it because even though it is...
He definitely has Vespasian's nose in the earlier portraits.
Great portraits @Bing . I have one of those Domitian Pegasi in my sights, but there are still a number of days before the auction ends.
Great coins @Nemo . I have 2 scarce denarii of Domitian and I am always on the lookout for more. Here is one of mine. Yes I have posted it before,...
Congrats on completing such an interesting numismatic journey.
This is also written on a marker at Essex farm in Flanders Belgium. This is where McCrae actually worked. It was very affecting to be there. I...
Nope, I rode the other one instead, inside Hogwarts castle. It was a blast. Had to line up for 3 1/2 hours to get on the ride. The Wizarding World...
Nice pickup @Pishpash
I agree, a great first coin. Congrats and welcome.
@Carausius Great coins. Congrats! I am especially drawn to those denarii.
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