This meteorite is certainly kryptonite. Just staring at it and suddenly I felt weaker and weaker.... [ATTACH]
Many of us have in their collections examples of coins with legend’s errors. Why did the engravers made such mistakes ? An opinion is that these...
I am working on it for about 55 years...
This is my 1st coin of this Emperor. Why did I buy it ? 1) it was missing in my collection 2) I’m a romantic ( rome antique...) guy and I like...
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Modern cast fake.Here is his twin brother... [ATTACH]
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In my opinion not ancient at all. The fields are too flat. The style is wrong.Probably machine pressed. I’d say it’s a modern imitation...
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One of the first coin I ever bought. Condition VVC ( very very circulated ) but I wanted it because sesterstii of this type are common, asses are...
Talking about Galba, two examples here currently for sale on ebay. One is described as ‘100% authentic and original’, the other one is listed as a...
Talking about Philip II, this one just arrived an hour ago in my mailbox. From @Bing auction # 4 : AE Pentassarion Confronted draped busts of...
I think he had his ‘5 minutes of glory’ with that episode...we have an expression in French to qualify this kind of guy : une ‘tête à claques’....
Very nice familly portrait. And @Andres2 , I have a coin similar to yours, but on mine it seems that the captive just ran away ! [ATTACH]
Here is a good article to read about the XXI written by @dougsmit : http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/feac73xxi.html
Very nice coin ! I also liked the precision about de ‘corn’. Here is a funny story about it :In German, corn means rye. In 1946, when famine...
Many thanks to all participants in the challenge. I had not expected so many nice coins with a patera on it. I also really appreciated that you...
Every collectors of Roman coins have at least few examples of characters holding the famous patera.For those you doesn’t know what it is exactly,...
It seems that the early portrait of Victorinus had the features of Marius
I always considered the poor Diadumenian as a ‘collateral victim’ of this civil war. He was executed at 9 years old, and according to the...
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