Thanks :) as bad as the 2nd one is, I think its a permanent part of my collection.
No need to add to what the others have said except that I agree, looks good :D
Just as a fallow up to #4 I thought I'd share one of my first ancients of the same type. :)
#4 is a wonderful bronze coin of Augustus with a fantastic portrait, minted during the reign of Tiberius that I was very fortunate to get, along...
This is pretty cool
I agree with medoraman, a very nice coin indeed!
#5 This one has a cracked flan, a scratch on the cheek, a couple splotches of green, hard to read mint mark, and is struck of center. But I think...
With hesitation, here's #6. The patina on this on looks amazing in hand and took a long to time to get a decent photo of it. Its a nice glossy...
Do you think its more because of the minerals in the soil, or maybe the content of the metal?
Patina, IMO
Thanks. I wonder if the red is an indicator of some led added the to metal.
Here's number 7 I guess :) It's a type I have not seen many of. I really like the style of the obv. and the metal has an interesting color to it...
This one is ugly, corroded, an ancient counterfeit, hard tosee detai, and could probably use a tiny bit of cleaning. However, it's 2090 years old,...
Yeah, hard to see. Your looks like a patera to me and the link looks more like a flower. ???
Haha, thats what I said, except I said file :D not scratch lol and yeah, its a nice coin Mat!
I'd vote for As but I've seen some of her coins listed as "Dupondius or As."
Mat suggested I give this a try, and after much enjoyment of his I figured I'd go for it :D This first one is one of my favorite Greek coins. I...
A great #1 ! This coin would nicely in any collection, it looks great. I still would like to get a nice RR denarius when I'm able too. Thanks for...
Excellent coin. Aside from being a great example of a rare coin, the toning around the peacock adds even more to it. It's really cool to have rare...
more northan (northern) than that :)
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