So it seems that I now have answers to my questions 5 and 6. Regarding question 1, I can guess that given that a club usually is associated with...
In the @Jochen1 thread I posted yesterday, @Ed Snible posted another pre-Imperial coin -- not from Antioch -- with a reverse showing Tyche and...
I wonder how they identified this god as Hermes. To me, it looks like it could be almost any of the Olympian gods! With the long beard, I assume...
I apologize for my ignorance, but what is the MR? I assume the first letter stands for Museum in whatever language, but the R? I am very...
I was having a sense of deja vu while reading through this, because I thought I might have posted before about some of these issues, citing some...
I love that lobster claw on the last one!
I just had one take 15 days to travel from Ohio to New York City. The tracking didn't update for about 10 days, showing the the package still...
I have one Roman Republican coin with Mercury on the obverse (the Mamilius Limetanus denarius with Ulysses and his dog Argus on the reverse), and...
Before I saw this, I edited my post again to add the following sentence: "The only disadvantage is that sometimes the articles are shorter than I...
I edited what I wrote a bit so it doesn't sound quite so snobbish. A popularizing tone -- which only occurs sometimes -- isn't really a handicap...
What I've read about rural England is not that such small coins were literally used "up to" that time, but that they were often found and dug up...
Thanks for the well-informed speculation! As for the website, I don't follow its facebook page, but articles from it show up regularly on my...
Sometimes it takes a long time even if you use a courier service instead of the USPS. But that happens less frequently. Money for the USPS to hire...
There are a great many reputable dealers on the VCoins platform, if you want to avoid Ebay.
Thank you. A very interesting post and thread. Which raises at least one other question. Apparently, the Tyche (or city goddess) of Antioch was...
See https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/01/archaeologists-discover-medieval-treasure-hoard-in-central-hungary/136764 According to the article,...
I recently posted (see...
15 of 20. There were some that I'm sure I've never seen before, including at least a couple that I got wrong twice before getting them right.
Already? Not that I'm complaining, but it feels like the last one just finished!
Thanks, @Al Kowsky. I'm sure you're right, but I can still be nostalgic about Royal Athena, even though I've hardly purchased anything from them...
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