Love those drapery folds on the top coin reverse. For my money during the fourth century, no one beats the Antioch die engravers.
Wow. So much to digest here. I need to save or mark this. I too am fascinated by this period and would like to tell its story in coins. This...
Love that Gloria Romanorum. I still don't have one of those. Here's an "eyes to heaven" Dafne, ex Beast Coins. [ATTACH]
Thanks Doug. It's interesting to note that indeed fourree makers were operating this late.
Great! I will bring my own dictionary.
Pedantic post of the day: The plural of follis is folles. Generally, a Latin nominative ending in -us will have a plural ending in -i. -A goes to...
[ATTACH] Is this Gordian III denarius a fourrée? Most of my experience with fourrée coins comes from earlier issues. I have a hard time...
I like big bronze and I cannot lie. No friend of the Christians, this guy. [ATTACH]
I do not think the two coins on the right have bronze disease. As @chrsmat71 said, bronze disease tends to be powdery and can be easily scraped...
For those of you with Amazon Prime video, this video streams free: Mothers, Murderers and Mistresses: Empresses of Ancient Rome. 2013. I'd give...
So since I can’t afford to buy new coins right now, I’m getting further acquainted with RIC and trying to provide RIC numbers and dates for coins...
I always have to ask myself just how much I alter a coin image in "postproduction." For example, when I photograph silver coins, 100 W bulbs...
But in its current state? I think the value would depend on a given buyer's confidence in his or her own cleaning skills. Could it clean up to be...
Good question. I wondered if the Etruscan statue was found early in Rome's history and became the prototype of the "standing wolf" image. But...
[ATTACH] Here's a slide I show when I teach the Aeneid, with me next to the famous Etruscan she-wolf in the Capitoline Museum, about 15 years and...
[ATTACH] WOLF AND TWINS in an Ostia sculpture. Actually, I think this is a cast copy, with the original in the Ostian Museum or perhaps the Museo...
Top coin at the imgur site is unclear to me. Maybe Greek. Second coin might be a Constans votive. Third coin looks to be an Urbs Roma...
Looks like several of these will be easy to identify. I see an Urbs Roma, a BEATA TRANQUILLITAS, etc. But it's very difficult to look at a dozen...
I think this disassociation is a bit disingenuous. The Green family bought the property for the museum, and the proposed museum will house the...
This is a very interesting thread to me because I filled out my first CN-22 two weeks ago and had similar questions about how to fill it out...
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