Another set is "Coins with Crosses". A good page on them is below: http://augustusmath.hypermart.net/crosses.html Fun thing about ancients, so...
Another idea is to build a set of reverses for an emperor or even empress you like. I have a soft spot for Lucilla & Crispina and set out to build...
Thats true, was gonna add Greeks tets. are not cheap, but didn't.
You could go what I tend to be known for, Empresses. From the first ancient I bought I found he had a wife and had to acquire one and that one...
Love the circulated cameo look to it. I have a few ancients like that. It's my preferred type of toning.
Nice score, congrats.
I remember that thread, good score for you! Congrats. They are neat.
Nice find, Chris. Glad to see new posts from you :) My only Shapur: [img] Sasanian Kingdom, Shapur I (241-272 A.D.) AR drachm O: Bust of Shapur I...
Great to hear! Hopefully when the time comes for other aging collectors with websites, other fans can take over their websites, maybe even expand...
Any denarius of Claudius is a good score, this one especially with a cool reverse. Congrats. It's one of those "I wish". Im lucky to have a...
Interesting, and they're Widow Mites too, lowest/cheapest kind of ancients you can buy. Way overpriced!
Looks OK to me. It's emperor Elagabalus. The flip tag is wrong. Not rare but desirable. http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/sear5/s7510.html#RIC_0188
Bargain hunting, and if your looking to had harder emperors like Caligula or Claudius in silver, then I can see the $10,000 mark. I used copper in...
It just looks fake, with the lettering and such, I don't like the look of it.
Not really, we buy/trade and even gift during x-mas from each other regularly here. And my 12 caesars set was less then $2000 total.
Bad news, that sucker is a fake! Hope you can return it. http://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/displayimage.php?pos=-2233
I've said it before, but the main appeal with ancients, for me, other then history, is the rules attached to moderns don't really apply to...
While it may be Steve's birthday, today is also the day Emperor Trajan passed away. [img] Trajan (98 - 117 A.D.) AR Denarius O: IMP TRAIANO AVG...
I have too many favorites, but this is one of them. And happy 52! [img] Severus Alexander (222 - 235 A.D.) Billon Tetradrachm EGYPT, ALEXANDRIA...
I find cloudy to partly cloudy conditions are the best. I tend to like the bottom photo too.
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