Congratulations to @Alegandron! I suspect that at least 1,000 of those likes are mine, just in the year I've been here.
He sent me an invoice before the coin the first time I bought anything at one of his auctions. Beginning with the second time, he has sent me the...
What a gorgeous coin! Did you already know about the statue when you bought it?
Isn't the next one supposed to be the Colussus of Rhodes?
Thanks for pinpointing it to one of his emails. I was able to find it in his Jan. 19 email: "This sale includes the last installment of ancient...
Aurelian, silvered AE Antoninianus, 274-75 AD, Cyzicus Mint. Obv. Radiate cuirassed bust right, IMP C AVRELIANVS AVG/ Rev. woman stdg. right...
Someone said in another thread the other day that they heard that this might be Frank's final sale before he retires. I don't see anything on his...
LOL.
You can check the final results on his website at http://www.fsrcoin.com/115.htm.
Wow. That nose of Nero's. I don't think the engraver liked him very much!
I think I got there first! So, another Roman provincial -- from Nero.
Nero, Billon Tetradrachm, Year 12 (65/66 AD), Alexandria, Egypt Mint. Obv. Radiate bust of Nero with aegis, right, ΝΕΡΩ ΚΛΑV ΚΑΙΣ ΣΕΒ ΓΕΡ / Rev....
Here are my dogs/hounds -- three Roman Republicans (all of them types that have already been posted above), and one Provincial. C. Mamilius...
I'm slightly embarrassed to admit that I bid on (and won) only one coin, and it was a milled British coin, not an ancient or medieval coin. Some...
I was wondering how Markowitz became Kowsky. They do have Kow in common!
I haven't read the article yet, but I'm sure it's great. My question is this: assuming that this article is by @Al Kowsky, are you sure it's OK...
Continuation: Petrie's 1917 book Scarabs and Cylinders with Names also offers a possible interpretation of the lion and sun disk motif, in its...
I have never been an enthusiastic Egyptian scarab collector, although I do have a couple that I posted early in this thread. But I recently saw...
Recently, I've seen several people post Maximian's coins here with his name given as "Maximian Herculius," a name I'm not familiar with. Is it...
My Nero As arrived from France today after being stuck in Memphis for a week --who knows why, because the last time I checked Memphis isn't...
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