What a great set of Republican coins! I don't think I've ever bought a Roman Republican coin specifically for the obverse (except for the...
I guess this serves as kind of a general acquisition thread, so here's a coin that just arrived from our own @Victor_Clark. I'm posting it here,...
A very interesting thread; thanks.
My one Maxentius: Maxentius (son of Maximian), AE Follis, 308-310 AD, Rome Mint (1st Officina). Obv. Laureate head right, IMP C MAXENTIVS P F AVG...
I've seen far worse renditions of an elephant than that drawing! In terms of the "gouge" in the elephant's side, almost every single example...
Wow!
Thanks. And yes, I've noticed, in looking at quite a few examples, that the stork on some of the dies is very sloppily rendered.
Yikes!
Could be! Personally, though, I think the answer is that a predatory dinosaur took a bite out of the elephant's left side, exposing the bone of...
So does anyone have an answer to my question about what in the world is going on with the elephant's left hind leg and flank on the Cecilius...
I doubt that the elephant on the Septimius Severus coin was intended to be a baby, given that the ones on other examples of the type that people...
Very much so. That had to be intentional, right? Have you found any other dies that look like that?
The only hippo I have is the one on the reverse of an Otacilia Severa coin, part of the Philip I SAECVLARES AVGG series. I wonder how many others...
Thanks! But don't short-change me, now, the 2,000 is posts, not likes! Also, I haven't been a Mrs. for a while. Just plain old Ms. these days!...
Those are great. I would love a Titus elephant coin, but I almost never see them for sale.
In the nine months (as of yesterday) since I joined Coin Talk -- and I really can't believe that I've posted more than 2,000 messages in that...
I imagine that it will be shipped by Brink's or a similar service. The same way that a diamond of that value would be shipped.
The captives in this Constans FEL TEMP centenionalis are wearing caps also described as "Phrygian," although they don't look much like the ones in...
One has to keep in mind, though, that scurrilous rumors about ancient Roman rulers always tended to run towards a taste for men and/or young boys...
This is pretty violent: Roman Republic, Publius Fonteius P.f. Capito, AR Denarius 55 BCE [Harlan: 54 BCE], Rome mint. Obv. Helmeted and draped...
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