I will try to keep this short, but I will probably fail. I too wish to register my appreciation for this site–its designer(s) and the persons who...
I don't have enough experience with these to render a vote. Mine is from Ake. But I do love the drapery folds on Zeus on that reverse. That is...
Here's a nice (?) image from this website: http://www.romanaqueducts.info/aquasite/foto/toilettekening.jpg [ATTACH]
One of my favorite sites in Ostia: the communal toilet. No privacy stalls here, just ancient Romans and port city visitors sitting, ahem, cheek to...
Yes, I understand that. With my comment on the 26-27 measurement, I was referring the original measurements taken above, not the closed calipers.
Well, here are the cheapo calipers closed. The way I read them, these calipers show the O mark between the 26 and 27 mm. point, which seemed...
Well, maybe *I'm* using the calipers incorrectly and have just cost Ancient Aussie 99 cents. Am I supposed to be looking at the edge of the bottom...
Lately I've been taken by the Constantine SOLI INVICTO reverses--particularly the posture of Sol. The top photo shows my coin, from Rome,...
So back in the fall I bought a nice pair of "EZ-Cal" digital calipers for about $27. A few months later I saw some cheap Malaysian-made plastic...
One might not expect a fairly inexperienced collector to plunk down thousands of dollars on a Vespasian sestertius. One can, however, imagine a...
I would be satisfied with that. But it would be helpful, then, to reference a specific book--perhaps even a chapter or page number--that...
I think one dimension of the conflict here is the problematic term "never." Certainly in conversation we may employ a bit of hyperbole to make a...
If I'm reading Ro correctly, it seems that he uses the "likes" system as a means of evaluating the desirability of one of the coins in his...
I meant brockage.
Ah, that makes sense. I assume that any kind of struck coin would result in a blockage. But your explanation makes sense.
How does a coin get a double strike reverse but a single strike obverse? I don't understand how that can happen. It seems like if a coin has a...
That's a great portrait gallery, Maridunum. BTW, what are the letters to the right and left of Sol on the reverses of those Soli Invicto types?...
Interesting. So was "Max" then a simple way of signifying "I am the eldest living representative of the Constantine line"? I thought Constantine...
I've wondered the precise opposite--that since his father Constantius was headquartered in Britannia, perhaps the London mint might have struck...
That Victor is a swell guy. BTW, I'm fairly certain I found a die match with Piero della Francesca's Duke of Urbino. [ATTACH]
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