I don’t know why everybody on here is so critical. If you unwrap those gold coins, I am sure there is a delicious milk chocolate treat inside.
Thanks for the ocular proof, @Carthago! I now completely disagree with Cato and @Mikey Zee that you must be destroyed. :joyful:
[ATTACH] In the past few months I picked up a Julius Caesar denarius with an Aeneas reverse. While shopping for a very long time, I probably...
Great sites. Well-crafted and clear prose, and well-chosen coins to illustrate. A pleasure to read.
I’d like to challenge zumbly and ACH for ugliest Jovian. The decent reverse and scarcer AE1 status might mean I lose. I think I got this ca. 2004...
Not all who wander are lost.
I love this approach. Sometimes the sheer breadth of Roman coinage is both inspiring and daunting. For novice collectors, it’s hard to even know...
That’s a remarkable lot for uncleaned these days. It would’ve been a good lot even when uncleaneds could be had at a reasonable price. I’ve...
I love that top portrait of Domitian. Very aloof and regal. Expressive.
Doug’s Page is great, as always. “Nemausus did not strike coins of a 1/2 value. Instead they cut these in half (almost always between the two...
Indeed, it seems that these crocodile issues are found halved in disproportionately large numbers as compared to, say, other bronze issues of...
[ATTACH] Heads I win, tails you lose. An acquisition from a late summertime auction. Constantine on one side, “Mars the Preserver” in a sweet...
You guys better be careful with your jokes. They can turn on your cell phone from 9000 miles away.
Sweet coin. And now for some Old English trivia. Æthel is an OE simplex meaning “noble” (hence the OE term for a prince, “aetheling.” Æthel also...
Great thread everybody. Why I love this board.
The first coin looks like it might be a Lucius Verus CONCORD AUGUST as, but the coin may be too worn to be for sure. Compare:...
Interesting. Since LIBERTAS is not spelled out in the reverse legend, I wonder what reverse attributes allow for this identification. Maybe the...
Yes. Some deals can be had there, esp. in the unsold lots.
I was being flippant, responding to the idea that LIBERTAS might mean more "order, security, and confidence" in the second century than freedom...
Do the coins slide around in those capsules, or is there some way that they stay put in the center of the capsule? I don't have any experience...
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