I have a vague recollection of looking once but not finding anything.
Why isn't there a "laugh" button?
Thanks for looking it up, @Broucheion. I took a look in Emmett at the specific coins on which the theme appears, and it seems that all of the...
Romulus and Remus were raised by an anteater? I'm not sure Rome would have had quite the same success if everyone knew that and its emblem had...
What is "National Numismatic Certification"? I've never heard of it.
The person from whom I bought the coin didn't tell me anything more specific than what I wrote -- which wasn't even part of the coin's...
Here's my one example of an VRBS ROMA commemorative, from the Trier Mint, First Officina (purchased from someone who found the coin by metal...
This coin arrived in the mail today. I had never come across another example before, so I bought it as soon as I saw it. I'm very happy with it;...
Here are a few Marcus Aurelius coins I own and like: Marcus as Caesar, in his beardless youth phase, with Honos on the reverse (RIC III 429a, RSC...
I don't own any provincial MA's myself, but @cmezner has posted one, and I do know that there are plenty of Roman Egyptian MA's from Alexandria,...
Thanks; I had not seen it. Some wonderful medals/jetons.
I'm glad people enjoyed seeing this medal -- not ancient, but it's certainly in the then-popular classicizing mode, and harks back to ancient...
Nihil sub sole novum. Including your complaint! If only novel subjects and questions were deemed appropriate here, then there wouldn't be very...
I'm afraid I have no ancient coins to post on this subject, but here's an interesting British medal presenting Bonaparte's escape from Elba as a...
Indeed. That's why I've bought about a dozen Provincials in the last six months. About half from Roman Alexandria, and the rest from a variety of...
This is a bit TMI for me. But I have to ask, which collection is larger?
There's a reason I own two sestertii and close to 100 denarii, and it's not that I have anything against sestertii. It's that the ones I really...
I was simply pointing out an important distinction to the OP, not criticizing him.
Fyi, it's Roman Republican, not Imperial.
These "jars" weren't like the actual containers for organs -- they were solid.
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