Thanks Chris - Merry Christmas.
@> zumbly - Having checked my copy of RIC I believe that you are 100% correct. (Commemorative Issue, Series II) I checked 'Wildwinds', 'Acsearch'...
Hi, Merry Christmas, and a safe and happy holiday season to all. I have this 'uncleaned' Claudius II Gothicus bronze coin, 19mm x 16.5mm, weight...
I think that you ALL could be right (including BING) if it is Commodus RIC III 1559 (Aurelius). (I have been known to be wrong before.) (From...
That will be it. Thank-you 'gxs' - much appreciated. I have other notes that are similar and I imagine that the same applies to them - special...
I collect (amongst other numismatic items) Australian Banknotes, and I have one that does not appear in any of my catalogues (including my latest...
@> Chris> I want to say 'Faustina' (Egypt) but I don't think I am right. Who is she? Is the obverse legend "FAVCTEINA CEBACTH"? Rev. Artemis?...
@> M.M. I love it.
Well, here are a few of mine. THEODOSIUS I RIC IX Antioch 68a [ATTACH] THEODOSIUS I RIC IX Antioch 67b70a [ATTACH] THEODOSIUS I RIC IX...
I thought that if I looked hard enough I would find something. Sorry, M.M. I was in error when I said that I did not have anything of Theodosius...
@> M.M. I love to read your dissertations. They transport me to places 'new' and times 'afresh'. You see, I wasn't disrespecting my tutors by...
Great find M.M. Well picked up. When we hear stories like yours it gives us all 'hope'. Congrats. I, unfortunately, like so many others, also...
Thanks for dropping in, Chris. All the best for 2016.
Nice coins, everyone. Thank-you. Is there no end to the variety of Reverses?
@JBG> I (also) love your Avatar. Nice to see the 'real' King of Rock 'n' Roll getting recognized. That man helped to launch the careers of most of...
(I remember him in the Jackson 5 when he looked like that, and now he is gone. Mind you, I remember Elizabeth in 'National Velvet' with Mickey...
Bing, Beef, A.N., J.B., All great coins. Thanks for sharing them.
Great coins, Steve. Let me guess. That is a Rhino called 'Elizabeth' (Taylor?). I heard that she could be a bit that way when the mood took her....
@>T.I.F., Thanks for the link to the earlier thread. Some great reading there. Thanks, again.
Thanks. The write-up doesn't say what happened to it, but being made of wood and being functional for only a few decades, I suppose it fell down....
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