That Faustina II is a beauty! Nice surfaces, nice style, nice toning, nice dove! That Panther does have some attitude! Interesting coins. I don't...
Absolutely... Alexandrian coins are the one type where I'll still buy then even if worn to nearly nothing. They've given me a problem to figure...
Well... we've been waiting since 2008, what's in the box... package? [IMG]
I'm working on a lot of things tonight. Among them these two recent arrivals. Welcome to the team! [ATTACH] Kingdom of Macedonia Kassander...
Great coins and references @Romancollector ! I don't have a campgate of Chrispus and I love Alexandrian coins so that Crisps is my favorite.
Great find, I just wish I would have noticed it first! These Alexandrian drachms (or hemidrachms as some call them) are great coins and usually...
Here’s some captives of war that I happen to have on my phone! [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
[ATTACH] Not my best Commodus denarius... but what I had on-hand tonight.
Here's the other side of that Constantine I Dafne coin... It's a really fun coin with lots of detail on the reverse. [ATTACH] Constantine I -...
Great coins! I like the later cuirassed busts from this era. They are a bit more scarce to find! That's a very nice coin, the obverse is very...
I have a fun new coin that came this week. I've always loved Alexandrian coins and big drachms are so much fun to hold... I really should to a...
I can definitively answer this one... It’s a cast fake. I have a nearly identical one that came in a lot of 14 other authentic coins. [ATTACH]...
Your coin type and examples can also be found here: http://numismatics.org/pella/id/price.1819
I think it’s fine... sometimes these are just cleaned/worn down to bare metal on the high points and this is what they look like. It’s a pretty...
[ATTACH] Florianus RIC 116 CONCORDAI MILITVM [ATTACH] Tacitus RIC 208 SPES PVBLICA [ATTACH] Tacitus RIC 14/15 MARTI PACIF [ATTACH] Tacitus RIC...
Great coins everyone, here's my denarius similar to @Ancient Aussie 's above... although looking the two photos, I'm noticing now that the obverse...
Hi @ab initio ! Probably the easiest thing to do is post from your iPhone. Just push the “upload a file” button and then push “photo library.”...
Excerpt from: The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon https://www.gutenberg.org/files/25717/25717-h/25717-h.htm...
I remember reading somewhere that while Carinus was in Rome watching over things, he threw some of the most epic games and parties of the imperial...
A little worn but I've always liked this resting-crab-face of Caracalla. [ATTACH] PS: Sorry for the huge photo... tried to resize it but still huge.
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