Thanks. I wonder why your lion is so tiny -- I've never even seen a photo of one that small!
Erin, I'm afraid I have nothing funny to post, but I did want to say that I always enjoy seeing you post something. And even though I don't post...
I guess the fact that nobody has posted another coin from the Gallienus legionary series -- compared to the many people who've posted coins from...
Thanks. Your coin is fantastic. I assume that it's a stand-alone coin? I don't remember a wolf and twins in the Zoo Series (which one can always...
Thank you! I must say that when I learned that the animals on the reverse of the legionary series apparently represent the legionary badges or...
In the nearly nine months since I joined CT, there have been several threads about the Gallienus "Zoo Series," most comprehensively in @Ryro's...
I understand the logic behind all your categories. @Alegandron, but -- as @+VGO.DVCKS indicates -- you could also use the same approach to divide...
I"m glad @Bing posted his example, because it reminded me that I forgot to post my own L. Roscius Fabatus. So here it is, belatedly. [ATTACH]...
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Right -- some of the Plautius Plancus Medusas have one small snake at the top of each cheek, and some don't. Different sub-types.
There are a lot of Republican coin types with more than 200 different dies for each of the obverse and reverse. Never mind all the possible...
A wonderful coin, @David Atherton. I hope someday to have an Alexandrian coin with an Agathadaemon snake. In the meantime, here are some coins I...
Hey, even I managed to do a specific gravity test on a suspected Roman Republican fourree, and I'm a technological incompetent as well as...
All after; the traditional dates are 27 BCE-476 AD. Before Julius were the Roman Republican and Imperatorial coins.
Are you suggesting that the resemblance is a coincidence, despite the geographic and chronological overlap?
Isis with Harpocrates/infant Horus on her lap first appeared in the form of Egyptian bronze statuary hundreds of years before the theme's first...
I know that some people have pointed to the large amount of graffiti found at Pompeii as evidence of a high literacy rate.
There were inscriptions on a number of the more elaborate Greek vases in the 6th and 5th centuries BCE. Perhaps they were intended for a more...
I have one Uberitas -- not from Trebonianus Gallus, but from Trajan Decius, the emperor he replaced. It was the first Roman Imperial coin I ever...
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