Thanks to all of you for chiming in. I'm very glad to hear such positive comments about your dealings with Nomos, both in general and with regard...
Bacchus/Liber appears on the obverse of this Vibius Varus denarius, and it certainly looks like he's wearing an earring. So that would be an...
Wrong thread; sorry!
I've mentioned before that I generally don't like buying ancient coins at auction, and have never done so except from Frank Robinson and the...
If I understand our esteemed new member correctly, he or she would agree that your coin has nothing to do with Hannibal. Their point seems to be...
But it should be indisputable that the Great Sphinx was by far the best-known sphinx of the "man-headed lion" type, both in Egypt and in the Roman...
A very beautiful coin.
Thank you. So far, so good. I wish the same opportunity offered to everyone as soon as possible.
Yes, and perhaps that's not really Trajan's Column on the reverse of that Trajan denarius. There were lots of different columns in Rome, after all!
Fascinating. How accurate in general were Dardel's drawings? Although the obverse looks like a match, the reverse portrait on the drawing does not...
Only one Spes, I believe: Herennius Etruscus Caesar (son of Trajan Decius), AR Antoninianus, 250 AD. Obv. Radiate & draped bust right, Q HER ETR...
I started to do exactly the same thing, but am way behind with it.
One more excerpt from K&G, for those who either can read a little German and/or (like me) are willing to use Google Translate or DeepL to decipher...
Instead of beginning a new thread, I've decided to revive this one from four months ago to post my new elephant coin -- my fifth ancient coin to...
Occam's Razor.
I'm reviving this old thread to post some pages from the copy I recently bought of the Kampmann & Ganschow ("K&G") catalog of Roman Alexandrian...
Can't you send your drone to pick up the coins and bring them back to you?
I, too, have a collection of about 100 old stereoscope cards, largely amassed in my teens and 20s at a store that sold inexpensive examples. (I...
What a wonderful coin, @David Atherton! If I'd seen it, I probably would have snapped it up myself, despite my reluctance to purchase from that...
Thank you for this fascinating discussion. Interestingly, my Nero Year 12 Alexandrian tetradrachm, which I posted together with the...
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