@AncientJoe, entirely leaving aside the fame and value and historical importance of your coin, it's truly beautiful. That toning! In fact, between...
Siliquae from Julian II and Valens [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I hope you realize that you are being way more insulting to @Ryro than he's been to you. Most importantly, you've been repeatedly attacking him...
I'm sorry myself for making assumptions, but my mind goes to only one place when I think of Lithuania and my family there, and I should realize...
Maybe he got millimeters confused with inches?
It's very nice, but you need to start a new thread for this; it has nothing to do with the topic. Click on "post new thread" at the top of the...
It's beautiful. I've wanted one of these as well, for a long time, to add to my antiquities collection. Like you, though, I'm very wary of fakes...
My father's family came from Lithuania as well. Jurbarkas. For obvious reasons, I have no relatives there anymore.
FYI, the operative request is supposed to be @dougsmit's request above, not @octavius's request, which came too late to go into effect. Can't...
I would argue that this one complies with the letter of the request, because three heads do appear on the coin, namely those of Faustina II and...
I have been the "family genealogist" since I was in high school. It's a good thing that I talked to all my elderly relatives back then, or I'd...
Oh, it was. More than 30 years collecting pretty much down the drain.
It can! Again, I once had all the official British coronation medals in silver for the monarchs (and, when issued, their queen consorts), from...
Here's one more "modern" commemorative medal with a reverse design using classical motifs -- although I don't know if the particular myth...
Plenty of women were depicted on the obverses of Roman Imperial coins without the title Augusta, particularly mothers and even grandmothers of...
I hope you post the photos sometime. I used to have a very nice Henry VIII groat (portrait in profile) and an Edward VI fine shilling, as well as...
A fascinating article. I had actually been wondering, after seeing this thread, whether Matilda issued any coins during her conflict with Stephen;...
You are very welcome. It's difficult to think of Napoleon as anything other than bloated and dissolute in appearance, as he was portrayed in...
How poignant. Even though I'm hardly a Royalist! I'm sorry you had to sell it.
Thank you. It's true that I had never even noticed the disclorations much in "real life," and saw them as incredibly apparent only after I took...
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