Although her coins usually bring very healthy prices at auction, Byzantine Empress regnant Irene is probably not very familiar among many ancient...
Nice coins, Donna, and the other examples posted here are also very nice. I have only two coins of the first century AD empresses that have been...
Thank you all for your wonderful coins and comments. On a somewhat different track, I have just started reading Graves' The White Goddess. a...
It goes without saying that much of Roman mythology was borrowed from the Greeks, and the retelling of the story of Proserpina (Persephone) is no...
Yes, he did oversee some major public works, including the construction of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople.
Nice thread! The history of Justinian I's reign is an interesting and complex one. Robert Graves, in his novel Count Belisarius, portrays...
It's possible, in Photoshop, to manipulate color and lighting, including surface shadows and highlights. I think that is what was done by the...
While much more of a medieval coin, AH 596 (1199-1200 CE), this Turkoman figural AE dirham, Artuqids of of Mardin, graphically shows the result of...
I have lotsa owls, and once you've seen one, you've seen them all, especially the standard classical owls produced in almost a cookie cutter way,...
Collecting for me, whether coins, fossils, minerals, nephrite and jadeite carvings, paintings, prints, has been a lifelong pursuit, and the scope,...
That's still a very good price, I think, for this very scarce and popular type.
That's a good coin, with a nicely centered reverse, at a good price. Does the 180 euros include the buyer's fee? I agree that the horn silver...
I'd be inclined to keep the coin as-is. The surfaces are slightly porous, and the patina covers some of that porosity, as well as provide...
I think there is an element of psychology when it comes to auction estimates. Obviously an estimate that is too high will discourage bidding....
That's a very nice, representative type set for the Julio-Claudian period. I especially like the Nero dupondius - nicely centered with full...
Nice portraits! That Agathokles tetradrachm is a stunner. Here's a facing Athena, slightly three-quarters, from Paionia, a tetradrachm,...
Dolphins swimming around Arethusa. Tetradrachm, Syracuse, Second Democracy, 460-406 BC. [ATTACH] Next: Gemini, the twins.
Nathan, do you have a photo of the other side? Often, with this type, the concave side has pretty good detail. The convex side is very often...
That coin looks like a Byzantine billon trachy. These coins are very thin, as you can see, and this coin is very heavily encrusted and corroded....
The coins in the earrings are Spanish silver "cobs", of the 16th or 17th century, probably one reale pieces. Now these coins were hammer struck,...
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