The Baroque era was the apex in roller die struck coinage. One of the best examples of this technology, at its height, is the series of 50 reales...
I know that I am REALLY late replying...sorry. I cannot find that coin now, but I did find one very much like it from a CNG auction, their...
Yes, very nice! I really like the hard patina and the color contrasts. That's what makes an ancient coin so unique.
Soooooooooooooooo nice!
Ah, I see what you're saying. It takes an hour or two for me to process information. I guess that's what I would have made a lousy attorney....
I found this image of a Syracusan tetradrachm, issued between 510 and 500 BC. It is extremely rare. Image courtesy of the Money Museum. Here's...
The rule of thumb that I have used to distinguish bronze disease from hard, green deposits, is that active bronze disease is a pale green to...
A very modern interpretation!
Thanks, but I do think that there are even earlier dates for this type, but they are quite rare. Perhaps another CT member has such an example....
I am not a historical linguist, really not a linguist of any stripe, but if I understand the question, which city began using the genitive plural,...
There's also an episode of Secrets of the Dead, Season 16, PBS, on Baiae. I don't think it is available for free viewing now, so you might have...
Here's an owl that came in today, from Israel. I'm pretty sure this is an imitation from Philistia or Phoenicia. The style of the obverse...
As noted with other coins in this thread, sometimes conditions for a bronze coin are just right to create uniform, hard patinas over varying...
That would be the owl you won today, 350-297 BC. The first owl that you acquired is a very rare type, and I don't think that flans were folded...
Here's a denarius of Sabina, Concordia reverse, circa 128-138 AD. [ATTACH] Next: Any coin of Sabina.
I'm home now. All my images are on a hard drive on my PC. Okay, I know this is very old fashion, but at least I am not using a wax cylinder...
Those are two outstanding intermediate owls. This type is harder to locate with nicely centered strikes. The later the coin was struck, the...
That's a very sharp strike for that period - very nice! The coin has some deposits of verdigris, but I really don't see any corrosion, but I...
I was able to purchase another tetradrachm of Vespasian, with Titus on the reverse, in October 2020. This is the second coin of this type that I...
An interesting historical tidbit is that August 19th is also the date, in 43 BCE, that Octavian was elected consul along with his relative Quintus...
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