Very nice work Mr. “eagle eye” Maridvnvm !
I especially advise you : beware of robots, they don’t have principles and are heartless. Your coin will surely be stolen soon....
Here is my example of Magnesia ad Sipylum you were talking about : As 20 mm 5.36 g TIBERIWN CEBACTON KTICTHN MAGNHTWN APO CIPILOY Tiberius and...
I think we have a winner in the « roman provincial. » category !
Sorry to interrupt but I don’t have any owl coin. But since we are talking about sunday’s game, I got this one, and guess who’s my favorite...
I appreciate the nice comments. Erratum: Mr.Doug Smith just made me notice that the usurper in 261 was Macrianus and not Macrinus. My translation...
This story is so amazing that it deserve to be told—or at least repeat. (Apologies for my poor vocabulary, english is not my mother tongue) The...
What a wonderful surprise! I’m jealous of your find. I think another one was sold in 2017 :[ATTACH]
Here is one with a lot of mileage :[ATTACH] Trajan Sestertius Pax seating. RIC 510 And another one quietly relaxing in a good bath of olive oil :...
Here is one of my old Commodus. Forgive me for the dust... [ATTACH] M COMMODUS ANTON AVG PIUS TRP VIII IMP VICOSIIII PP Victory standing right,...
Congratulations for your article, Dr.Jochen,I especially liked the details about the”small boy”.
Clearly a double strike. Probably the hammer just bounced a little bit by accident. I wouldn’t say they are that common, but not extra rare...
Suetonius wrote in “the 12 Caesars” : ‘he had the figure of a man who has made vigorous efforts.’ Anyway his superb scowl made him famous!
Welcome to CT . Please don’t be too hard on your Vespasian coin. The sentence I quote made me laugh, because it’s exactly what my wife said about...
Here’s my old Fortuna dupondius of Nerva. First coin I ever bought in a coin show. [ATTACH]
Maybe it was not only decorations. N.Fuentes wrote in one of his books :"Most depictions of Roman galleys show between the triplepointed embolum...
There is that description on wilwinds : “with head of an animal, looks like a wolf to me .”
Altar for the unknown gods. Found in Rome [ATTACH] SEI DEO SEI DEIVAE SAC G SEXTIVS C F CALVINVSPR DE SENATI SENTENTIA RESTITVIT...
Even the new testament, in Acts of the apostles chap. 17, report a speech given by Paul in Athens, and he start talking about “an altar on which...
My first coin was a provincial Tiberius from Magnesia ad Sipylum. Got it from a little shop in Germany. I didn’t know at the time that it was...
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