When I first saw this I thought it was an as of Domitian or something like that. Turns out it is a Caria, Tabae Pseudo-autonomous bronze from the...
Looks like fun to me. And the price is right.
Nice lookin' lots there Victor - some real "princes" in there. I know what you mean about slogs (and kissing frogs, metaphorically speaking, of...
Just got an oddball batch of five LRB and medieval hammered silver from eBay for $10.50 that I wanted to run by you. The lot was not very well...
What a fine lot that is. I am glad you shared - something about a lot of ancients that I really like. There are some real beauties here, 1, 4...
Ah rifles. Yep. Collected those too, but not really anymore. Old weird stuff - a Martini Henry, a Dutch Beaumont, some Carcanos. Most of it...
My first ancient was a Septimius Severus denarius I found at a local dealer's for $35 in 1987. It has the MARS PATER reverse, which I really do...
Great site, Victor. I had not seen that one. Many thanks.
Yeah, those Swiss counterstamped ecus are pretty cool. Bern and Vaud did them, as I recall, with the Vauds being a lot harder to find. It seems...
Thank you Victor. Yes, that's the one: RIC VI Alexandria 139b. It is in Wildwinds, but a gamma rather than an alpha top right (but that is just...
Holy moley that is complicated - the Tetrarchy era had so much going on politically and numismatically. Thank you for copying that out - I...
Thank you Roman Collector. The more I look at these, the more confused I got...
I just got this rather pretty Maximinus II Daia follis (GENIO IMPERATORIS, Alexandria Mint) in a lot of bronze stuff the other day. The photos...
Thank you Irbguy! That is really, really helpful. In addition to helping with the pearl/diadem issue, you showed me what a "stephane" is - I've...
I apologize for the lousy condition of this Faustina II denarius (I'm sure you all have better ones) - it got chopmarked at some point. But ugly...
I really like those ecus. Have a few myself, all pretty beat: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] My favorites are the ones that wound up going to Switzerland...
Very nice Parthian drachm you got there - I really enjoy these, though I only have a few. A while back Valentinian posted a Parthia Identifier...
The nice thing about ancient coins (including medieval) pre-machine coins is that the dies were individual works of art (no "hubbing" etc.)....
Really nice selection, Doug. To go from those beauties to my beast, here is my only Philip elephant, somewhat reduced through the centuries......
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