Have fun. Find something that appeals to you. The nice thing about ancients is that you actually can find an interesting coin for $20-25. You've...
I might have a little different riff on this topic. I enjoy the experience of reading a history book that is not specifically numismatic but...
SMANA HERE: http://www.constantinethegreatcoins.com/posthumous/ SMANL ? HERE:...
Mintmark on the Constantine coin has to be SMAN. Sacra Moneta Antioch, I think. There are no Constantine coins with SMAR in the exergue. (Of...
Doug’s fourée pages are indeed quite good. In his discussion of RR fourées he writes, “During this period the purity of metal and weight was kept...
One of the things I really like about this drachm/tet design is the way in which the entire obverse space is utilized. Bing's drachm is an...
Valentinian / Warren Esty has several quality fourrees on his site at *very* affordable prices. http://augustuscoins.com/ I just bought a RR...
Posthumous, alas. 311-310 B.C. But I love that blank eye from Ake. [ATTACH]
DR, are you collecting this Vespasian because of the Jewish war connections, or do you just have an interest in Vespasian for other reasons?
Me and my buddy Mithras in an Ostian Mithraeum, 2010. Don't worry everybody--the statue was a copy. The original is in the nearby excellent Ostian...
I've been to Pompeii multiple times and to Ostia twice. I actually enjoyed my trip to Ostia more. It was in January and I pretty much had the...
This penurious professor doesn’t have any really expensive coins. But I spent the most on this shekel of Tyre a little over ten years ago, and...
Ah, poor Argus. No I'm not crying. YOU'RE CRYING! [ATTACH] And so these two men [290] talked to each other about these things. Then a dog...
Props to you for your discipline and vigilance. You really earned that coin in more ways than just writing a check for it. And what an enigmatic...
Nice. I will be buying a Claudius As in the next year or so to fill a slot in my 12 Caesars set that I'm sloooooowly building. Still trying to...
Here are a few pix from that Palazzo Massimo lower floor. Lots of YouTube videos of the museum don’t even include this floor. I suspect most just...
If you're into "numismatic tourism" in Italy, in addition to the Capitoline Museum collection, the underrated Palazzo Massimo branch of the...
I am fairly certain you don't either. I remember visiting that museum around 2010, and they did not allow photos in the museum at that time. But...
And finally, a hoard of big, fat SESTERTII!!! [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Here's @FitzNigel 's dream wall, from the same museum. Wish my pix were better. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
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