I love the Western Han 5 zhu, just a splendid example, with an excellent patina. Your Byzantine bronzes are also very nice, especially the...
Nice coin!
Well, it is fun what it is, if it is. It sort of looks like an elephant head, possibly a mint control symbol? Elephants do appear in Egyptian...
Thanks I see the area you're referring to. There's also something on the neck guard of the helmet. It almost looks like some kind of animal's...
I think a good objective is to reduce purchases, become more focused, spend more time organizing, documenting (cataloging) and to decide what, on...
Thanks & a Happy 2021!
That's interesting - where on the obverse do you see this letter? Thanks I've take a look at the obverse, and I think I see the letter, on the...
Thanks. I will try.
A great lineup! I like the portraits of #5 in particular.
I love Celtic coinage! I just wish I have the discipline to focus on that area and not everything else. That's a wonderful set of Celtic...
If you want to go in the mythology direction, here's a work that is funny and poignant that I am sure you will enjoy: [IMG] And, now that I...
Thanks. There is some ambiguity with these counterstamps, give the surface condition of the coin (horn silver and mediocre metal quality), but...
Wonderful coins. The Carthaginian gold stater is absolutely beautiful!
This is the last ancient coin for me this year. It came to me from a French seller via MA Shops. It is an imitative tetradrachm of Athens,...
I've had shipments sent by tracked international first class mail, which is pretty bare bones, and subject to pretty erratic tracking. I wonder...
Your Nero sestertius and Galba denarius are really beautiful examples.
Thank you. It's a very nice little coin and there's a story behind it. The obol came as a gift with another coin that I purchased this year....
Nice coins, especially the Maximinus II. To help finish the year, here's my smallest coin, an obol of Bacrtria. Bactria, Circa 171-145 BCE...
I agree. Time and again coin hoards are discovered. Prices drop. The collector market absorbs the coins, and prices being to climb again. Over...
The reverse of #3 is very intriguing!
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