Thank you David! I appreciate the guidance & clarification on this one - it has been puzzling me for a while.
My Nero strummin' Apollo similar to the OP, but left-facing head, and ugly: [ATTACH] Nero Æ As (62-68 A.D.) Lugdunum Mint NERO CLAVD CAESAR...
Those are some lovely London issues, Sallent. I just got my first London mint issue in the mail yesterday (eBay bottom-feeding). While trying to...
Nice Titus sestertius, David. I really like Spes as a reverse type. I have a holed as from Vespasian with a weird obverse legend - a variation?...
I think my host coin is medal alignment, but it is so very worn I am not sure I am interpreting the reverse correctly. I think I can see the...
Just got a rough one similar to the OP, so I thought I'd share, along with my attribution efforts, dimensions, etc. I think it is a Titus "Judea...
A couple years ago when I first started in on Byzantine coins, I read our local library's copy of Byzantine Coins by P.D. Whitting. There I found...
Nice examples of Venus from behind, one of my favorites. TIF, that is a very nice example. Here are some not-so-nice ones I got from...
Nice coins everybody - and good to hear some younger folks are getting involved. That obliterated portrait of Doug's is spectacular. I have a...
I really enjoyed this post, Roman Collector - interesting approach, this focus on a random coin in the collection. Your write-up was informative....
This is a very interesting post, jamesicus - I've developed a real interest in Greek and Roman countermarks recently and this is all new...
Happy birthday, medoraman! I think those lots are great - its about my favorite way to buy ancients, and your new ones look like they will...
The artistry of this one - and that nice mellow toning - a beautiful coin indeed.
Nice one, Deacon Ray. Mine has a lot more wear - it came in an oddball eBay lot from 2013. I was delighted when I found it was a Judea Capta...
Very interesting topic. I thought I would share some more fakes, and a few thoughts on eBay, where I buy most of my ancients. Yes, fakes...
Nice batch of Seleucids, Deacon Ray. I am impressed. Just lately I've been accumulating a specimen here and there. The quality has been a bit...
Sorry to hear about your bad experience, Gary. Those are very attractive phonies, in my opinion (I am impressed by the patina, especially on the...
This is an interesting topic. To expand on Ken's mention of the Marc Antony legionary denarius, here is an excerpt from a Coin World article:...
I really like that OP, rrdenarius. Countermarks are fascinating and I have just started accumulating a few myself. No elephants in this post,...
Nice accumulation - this really demonstrates how attractive this series can be (the few in my collection are not attractive at all, however).
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