I was just trying to make a joke. I'm with you on privileging history over condition. Every coin tells a story, and sometimes the coin with more...
I think I’d rather see a collection of high-end coins of low-end women.
Atargatis trivia: The Starbucks logo is believed to depict Atargatis or related deity.
Yep! That's on the 2019 want list...
They're fairly inexpensive. Maybe $20? A good show and tell piece for a Shakespeare class or any enthusiast.
Not a person, really, but whenever I teach THE TEMPEST I show this "doit" from the time of Shakespeare. In 2.2., when Stephano and Trinculo find...
Probably 50% planning, 50% discovering coins I did not know I wanted until I did. Areas of interest: Constantine the Great. (Next up: Captives...
Yeah. You’d be lucky to have a lot clean up like that.
I’d like to get an Atargatis coin one day. I wrote a Celator article years ago on her. She features prominently in Apuleius’s THE GOLDEN ASS. On...
It’s his 50 bucks. He’ll do what he wants. Even though taking $50 and purchasing inexpensive identified coins might be more logical, I completely...
It was the early 2000s. I had just learned about buying uncleaned bulk lot coins. (I have since grown more discriminating, and more concerned...
Three quick responses: 1. Today there is no such thing as “unsearched” Roman coin lots. Maybe in 1999. But not today. Anyone who claims to sell...
I finally heard back from Katie, who gave permission to share her write-up of the Julia Domna / Venus denarius that @dougsmit was so kind to...
I am so glad you enjoy the coin. It is a difficult coin to photograph; you did a much better job than I did with it.
Wonder which tetrarch is under that big ol' follis dirt.
Well, I still have a soft spot in my heart for Pompeii. But maybe the gift shop should be taken with a grain of salt. By the way, if I had to...
I too like the Domitian. The die engraver really liked doing D's hair.
I wish I could get a sense of scale. From the photo it might as well be 18 mm. But 58 mm? What is that like--a frisbee? Wow.
To survey a range of bronze coins of Vespasian and the range of market value, you can click on this search string here:...
Interesting. I doubt the archaeological superintendent of Pompeii would allow excavated coins to be sold in a bucket outside the site. But if that...
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