If you'd been buried for two thousand years, you might need a bath too.
And sadly, you won't own it, unless you find a way to ahem liberate it from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston where it now hangs out.
"Sulla's Dream." Not much actual wear really, and reasonably complete for these, but pitted and corroded. A dreadful coin, truly unpleasant,...
Sadly, I can't find a pic of my triskeles. It's pretty nice. I'll compromise with its pal, Crawford 445/2. [ATTACH]
Unlike the kidney you can produce more kids, so it seems like a pretty clear choice.
Well, unless you had the only time machine, things would still get pretty pricey. When I look at the coins in that sale that were high on my list...
There surely is an earlier provenance, but I've not been able to find it. The Leu 17 cataloguer--Sylvia Hurter I suppose--was not at all...
It's scarce, but certainly not rare--Crawford estimates 90 obverse and 112 reverse dies for the whole issue. This variety showing the voting...
I think iron mittens are collectible, so there's that.
[ATTACH] This is one of two coins with a special tag in my trays, telling my wife to put it on the cover of the catalogue if I die suddenly. (My...
The Festival of Isis coins are seriously cool. If I had much deeper pockets and a few hundred years longer to live, they're a series I'd enjoy...
Still not my first purchase, but I found an earlier pic; Brutus as moneyer in 54 BC, purchased from Carl Subak in 1982. Pity the name is cut off;...
Not really my favorite of the issue, but the best one I have a photo of: [ATTACH]
An attractive and "feminine" Roma head, feminine to my eye anyway. [ATTACH]
There's been one other recent sale. Gorney had it most recently 10 years ago. Before that, ex Leu 17, 1977, 287; Lanz, Slg. Benz Nr. 93; Triton...
A couple of Marsic Confederation coins from my collection: Phil Davis [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Not my first by any means, but my longest-ago purchase I have a photo of. $75 from HJB, at a show in Milwaukee in 1984. I remember Harlan had a...
Your wish is my command Doug... eventually, lol: [ATTACH] I've never seen another one anywhere. De Ruyter's die study of L. Julius Bursio...
In my long-ago Celator column, I once responded to collectors unhappy with rising prices in their specialties (i.e., prices higher than they...
I suppose Crawford 44/5, 211 BC. Here are two examples, of widely differing style and fabric. Phil Davis [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
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