Very instructive research RC. If I may, I'd like to add some details about the (marble) portraits of Faustina the younger: Faustina Minor boasts...
Maybe, but yours is 0.10g heavier... Thanks for sharing, I missed your post.
I won 3 coins this week-end. One of them is my first Saloninus misattributed by the auction house with Valerian II, even if on the obverse legend...
AND WHAT ABOUT ME ??? I'M THE REAL BRUTUS ! [ATTACH]
I do not want to defend the undefendable but the description of the auction house says: "heavily tooled and smoothed". About the big nose, a quick...
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Anyone of you having news from @Cucumbor ? It seems they have been hit badly in France. Hoping Mr.Jean-Claude and his family are OK.
Montreal, Quebec. I'm impressed by humanity's stupidity when people are panicking. It's almost the WAR in supermarkets for toilet paper and water...
Seriously, I found this on Coinsweekly: [ATTACH]
No more coin shows, no sports on TV, a shortage of toilet paper; the real question here is "ARE WE GONNA SURVIVE THIS GLOBAL PANDEMIC "? Luckily...
There was one for sale in @Severus Alexander first auction in 2018 ; it sold for 70 CAD. Another one was auctioned by Auctiones GmbH in 2011 and...
Very nice trio @gogili1977 . Three different emperors with the same type reverse; pretty cool!
A few comments about the amazing coins posted on this thread: Thanks for posting these RC. Never seen that type before, and even if I did, I...
As you certainly noticed, english is not my mother tongue.But since my youth, I know the expression "to make a moon". But I wasn't sure if it was...
That's incredible @galba68 . Can I ask how many hours your guy took to do a super cleaning job like this??
The moon will be its fullest at 2:30 A.M. on Tuesday, meaning that a casual viewer will probably get the best look at it Monday night. March’s...
Thanks for this thread RC. Very interesting specimen posted + you made me rediscover a coin I was suppose to soak and finish cleaning...2-3 years...
The Vexillum was a Roman rectangular banner or flag that was attached to a horizontal pole. When it was ornamented with the Christogram (Chi-Rho),...
WATCH OUT! This seller is on the crook list... https://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=18502.0 [MEDIA]
According to the very very exhaustive list of Gallienus coins on Dane Kurth's website, no stars on right field with the Virtus type of Antioch...
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