Trajan Decius, billon Tetradrachm, 249-251 AD, Syria Coele, Antioch Mint. Obv. Radiate bust right, three pellets below (•••), ΑΥΤ Κ Γ ΜƐ ΚΥ ΔƐΚΙΟϹ...
12 hours, new theme. Philip I Billon Tetradrachm, 247 AD [Year 3], Syria, Seleucis and Pieria, Antioch Mint. Obv. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed...
Thank you.
My one Athenian owl is also very much a budget example, purchased in 2007 for $300. I doubt it would sell for much, if anything, more than that...
Thank you. I appreciate it. I honestly don't feel that the fact that Seinfeld is Jewish justified his use of that phraseology. Anything...
It's called "full image," I think.
For collectors in the USA, I believe that VCoins is the best platform of the three mentioned.
Perhaps it's the very elusive giraffopard.
That's what it's supposed to mean, but I've gotten messages like that and asked the dealer about it, and the dealer claims that they gave the...
That wonderful feeling when one opens the mailbox and sees those telltale little packages!
It is. It's the one artifact or coin I've left in its case since I bought it, and have never actually touched. I'd be too afraid to!
I think the idea is that archaeological objects from other countries shouldn't be displayed, but should all be returned to their countries of...
Much better.
As a well-reasoned response to the "anti-collectors" position, and the argument that objects (including coins) divorced from their archaeological...
Most of my Greek coins are silver, but I do have one bronze with a Greek Olympian, namely Dionysos: Lydia, Philadelphia, AE 17, Late 2nd/Early...
Did people use "_____ nazis" phrases before Seinfeld and soup nazis? If it started with Seinfald, bad idea, Jerry. I've never thought it was funny.
Not part of the game, but apropos of that medal and the Olympian theme: an ancient Greek gold leaf from the 4th-3rd Century BCE. once part of a...
What a fantastic coin!
I think this medal has a Greek theme, by definition: France 1906, silvered AE plaque by Paul Vannier, 49 x 70 mm., issued for the 1906...
Obviously, it was Skull and Bones that stole the coins, and smuggled them out through the secret tunnels beneath the steam tunnels, before selling...
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