What a great present! @ominus1 is generous indeed! Happy New Year, Erin. My only coin of that poor Crispus. Such a handsome lad, too. Look at...
I never liked that child.
My only Theodosius I -- my latest-issued Roman coin: Theodosius I, AE3 (Sear: Centenionalis), 379-383 AD, Alexandria mint, 3rd Officina. Obv. D N...
Gosh darnit, I missed by a second again!
Antiochos VIII Epiphanes (Grypos)/ Zeus Nikephoros [ATTACH] Next: Zeus
Very impressive! I have no openings in my floorboards wide enough to fit the slab, though. So I just tried opening the bottom drawer of my desk...
Thanks. I have a hammer, so I may try that method tomorrow. I don't want to hammer in the evening hard enough to bring any complaints from my...
Thanks, @ominus1. Unfortunately, my childhood vise doesn't open wide enough to hold the slab, even the short way. So I'm afraid that's out.
I hardly ever buy coins of post-Valerian/Gallienus Roman emperors anymore (except for a few silver siliquae), because I don't find them -- the...
I'm not sure if it's a die match or not, but it's awfully close. On the other hand, your coin resembles one of the genuine types illustrated by...
My only Salus coin (the same type as Alegandron's), together with an explanatory footnote. Roman Republic, Manius Acilius Glabrio, AR Denarius,...
Thanks for the links. Can the BMCRE volumes available on the Internet Archive be downloaded? And is the coin database on the British Museum...
OCRE is also very useful if you can't afford to spend $1,000+ on RIC, since the numbering is based on RIC. Plus it's updated to a certain extent....
Good luck. Don't forget that despite all the fakes, there are plenty of genuine ones out there too.
If I understand correctly that the other photo is of a known fake from the New York Hoard (taken from the Goldsborough article), yours is...
Nice coin. The concave side is the reverse, so you have that correctly.
Perhaps Victory/Nike on the reverse? She appears to have wings.
Congrats on your first! The photos are pretty blurry so it's difficult to see the coin very well, I'm afraid. But it looks quite worn (for...
It's kind of hard to tell because (at least on my screen) the top image is so dark. But the obverse, at least, looks like a match. There's...
Those are fantastic, especially for the historical significance. And it was one of the hardest lists to pick favorites from. The Owl would usually...
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