Recent purchase arrived yesterday; purchased unidentified from a trusted ebayer Gallic Empire Tetricus II as Augustus Mid/late 274? Obv:...
I watched the first episode of season 1 - Not a show to watch when the kids are awake! I'm still confused why, for a show purporting to be more...
Even my first middle school relationship lasted longer than Pertinax's reign! Must have been a wild year! [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
For the most part I don't actively seek out ancient counterfeits, but I do own a few. IMO, a fourree doesn't count if you are trying to build...
I'm a little uneasy about the soapiness of the obverse, but undecided. Not a lot of money on the line either way. I briefly owned one, sourced...
My "dishwasher" coin [ATTACH] A couple years ago, we found ourselves in need of a new dishwasher. We went to the store, picked it out, set up...
Mint state coins went straight from the mint to the distributor(s) to the payee to the ground. Worn coins' stories are lost to us, but there's...
I prefer imperial mainly because of the generally better workmanship and ease of reading the legends - I struggle with the cluttered Greek legends...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] And that's al... Hey! What are you guys doing here? GET OUT! THIS CLUB IS INVITE ONLY [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
Superb presentation, but we gotta have those close ups! My Augustus and Claudius need a desperate upgrade, but otherwise I'm proud of what I have...
Nice coins! I only have one, the more common Amdan Bayyin quinarius [ATTACH] I'm not sure if we know for certain which kingdom made them, but...
Here's the question... how about terminal Roman / Early Byzantine coins? [ATTACH] Justinian I AV Solidus VICTORIA AVGGG Delta / CONOB Even...
The archaic and early classical Gorgoneion are some of my favorite design motifs, particularly for the superstitious belief that they would...
They all look to be Indo-Scythian and early to mid Kushan. I see several Vima Takto / Soter Mega drachms and I think the square with Herakles...
A few ladies who I don't feel get quite as much credit as they deserve Salonina [ATTACH] Galeria Valeria [ATTACH] Fausta [ATTACH] Didia...
Absolutely lovely! I've been meaning to invest in a really nice FTR that doesn't have the flat spots: [ATTACH] One random thing I have noticed...
I wouldn't ship out of the US for a while until I learned how many more bids you get from people in Europe. I still prefer to ship domestic...
Maximus from the movie was a synthesis of: 1. Pompeianus, Lucilla's second husband. She planned to make him emperor after she killed Commodus,...
Nice write up! It is indeed a but daunting; the Tetrarchy was the last of the "easy" Roman period sets I completed, for exactly this reason! One...
My only Verus, although several have passed through my hands [ATTACH] My understanding is that Verus was omitted because, while he wasn't a bad...
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