My next read is The Persian Boy, followed by The Mirror and the Light, the third book of the trilogy on Thomas Cromwell.
Here's an image of an Athenian tetradrachm, possibly an imitation, high grade, but with a hairline scratch on the cheek. This is one my earlier...
I'm glad that you grabbed that bull by the horns!
As far as the yellowish or brownish cast, that can be controlled in Photoshop under color, saturation. Lowering the saturation removes the cast...
[IMG] "Poseidon is coming! Poseidon is coming! I Theseus tell you so, I his son. The sacred bull was killed and the Earth Bull has wakened!...
The countermarks on the second coin, obverse might be the Aramaic letter for shin Yes, there was a progression, with minor variations here and...
The Fickle Finger of Fate was in your Favor. Nice coin.
That's a beautiful example. Where did you acquire it and when?
John H. Kroll, in his paper on THE CHRONOLOGY OF THIRD-CENTURY BC ATHENIAN SILVER COINAGE, mentions tetradrachms and drachms of this period that...
I know that 12 hours have not lapsed since my previous post, but to move the game along, here's another challenge: Next: The one coin in your...
Here's a good-sized cast bronze of the Roman Republic that should fit the bill, easily. Roman Republic, 280-276 BC Aes Grave Quadrans [ATTACH]...
Thank you. I'll add that information to the coin's label.
Here's my Bar Kochba shekel/tetradrachm, purchased many years ago from Worldwide Coins of California. Judea, No Date (134/5 AD) Shekel Bar Kochba...
The first coin has better detail, compared with the second, but the fields are rougher and there are flan flaws and splits with the first coin....
Yesterday, outside the front gate, on driveway(!), I found a package of long awaited lots from Roma Numismatics. Included was a large lot of...
So, this coin falls under the grouping of heterogeneous tetradrachms of the late 3rd century. The tetradrachms of this group were issued in...
One of the advantages, if one could call it that, of having a failing memory is the joy of rediscovering a coin that was assumed to be long gone....
That's a very nice sestertius, Donna - nicely centered and very good detail. I don't remember what my first sestertius was, but I am pretty sure...
Thank you. I'll see if I can locate a copy of this book. Here's one more coin, one that has been posted before a couple of times. I believe it...
I can't quite see it in the photo, but if there is a delta behind the ear your coin is probably Ptolemy I.
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