Interesting choices. I love the detail on the trophy on the SARMATIA coin.
Doug, the level of detail on those coins is incredible.
I've often found the auction world intimidating. Perhaps it's all the high-dollar coins that, paradoxically, have kept me from engaging. So I'm...
Good point, Ken. Since I posted my disappointment about a coin with an artificial patina, allow me to voice a VCoins positive. I received a VCoins...
Here's my SAECVLI FELICITAS Isis to match that of @Alegandron: Julia Domna, Augusta, 194 - 217 A.D. AR denarius.17.8 mm. 3.06 g. 180° IVLIA...
I've used VCoins sellers for several years and have been generally pleased with my experiences. It's a shame that the site no longer exercises the...
Speak of the devil. This coin arrived yesterday from Gert Boersema in the Netherlands. It's a Magnentius with good detail for the soldier,...
I just checked out your website Glenn. Fantastic. I too have an interest in the coins of Constantine, and your collection and organization were...
A (relative) newbie question: why might a high officina/shop number be particularly desirable?
A while back I watched a documentary on the Sutton Hoo Anglo-Saxon ship burial and its famous helmet (reconstructed in the photo). The documentary...
The thing that I like best about that Vesta reverse @Mikey Zee is, for lack of a better word, the "white space." No clutter. Just an elegant...
Wonderful detail on these coins. I like to imagine I can see poor barbarian's facial expression as he stares down that spear on that Lugdunum AE2.
That is a museum-quality tour of numismatic history in a single collecting year. Remarkable.
That's very helpful Bing. Thanks. And Doug, I'm done pressing. It has taken me a few posts to get my own thinking together. I'm sorry if I've...
I am tempted to begin this post with, “At the risk of belaboring the point,” but I think I’m too late for that. ;) But allow me to further...
Oh wow. That's a beauty. Fantastic detail, particularly of the smaller figure.
[ATTACH] I think sometimes it’s helpful to consider later reflexes of iconography in venturing an interpretation. As I’ve said and written, I...
Ah, I love those Tanit/horse coins. One day I’ll pick one up. I understand that the horse head is an allusion to the legend that the...
One further word about the hut. Below are images of huts from the Roman Vergil manuscript. They don’t illustrate the Aeneid but illustrate either...
Thanks everyone. Yes, Valentinian, if I could write the essay over, I'd back off the assertion that the rude dwelling is anything other than a...
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