I promised myself back in June or so that I wouldn't order any more coins from Continental Europe (the UK has been OK) until things with the mail...
Thanks, James (a great name -- it happens to be my son's!) That's extremely kind of you. I always very much enjoy your posts.
Yes, their "Art of the Ancient World" color catalogs were amazing. I have a number of them, but there are also a lot of them that you can still...
Those are wonderful. I used to love looking at ads like that. I guess they don't really exist anymore, except on the Internet, sort of.
A great coin! I have one coin -- my Tiberius "Tribute Penny" -- that I bought from Kirk Davis, that was purchased originally from Tom Cederlind a...
Me too!
Also from Royal Athena, these two Hellenistic terracotta figures, also from the 3rd-2nd centuries BCE, purchased in 1991. The first is the head of...
It's really too bad that nobody in his family wanted to follow in his footsteps. Compare that to Stack's Bowers, also here in NYC, which is now...
After operating for 78 years under the same proprietor, Jerome Eisenberg -- who started as a mail-order ancient coin dealer in 1942 at the age of...
I really like the obverse of my Plautius Plancus denarius -- including the snakes at Medusa's temples and the banker's mark(s) to the left of her...
Thank you! It makes sense that it was a different Legio XIII.
Thanks for the very interesting explanation. But I guess I still wonder why Antony would issue a coin for Legion XIII if it was used by his enemy...
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....
Very cool!
Here's a coin I don't believe I've posted before: Claudius II Gothicus, potin Tetradrachm, 269/270 AD (Year 2), Alexandria, Egypt mint. Obv....
. Do you know how Legion XIII ended up with Mark Antony against Octavian if it was Caesar's legion 17 or 18 years earlier, given that by the time...
Thanks. I do worry sometimes about displaying several of my coin trays out in the open, which is why I don't ever post my real name or exactly...
I hate to see you leave, even temporarily. I've never been the one to change the subject from coins. And I'm being accused of plenty. Once again,...
Wow! What an amazing little coin. Interesting that there are at least two different Hadrian Year 11 coins from the Arsinoite Nome.
I've posted plenty of coins in this thread. My thread, in case you forgot. I don't need to post another one to respond, very politely, to your...
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