Thanks for posting this. I saw it last night, and found it quite interesting. Oddly enough, the one of Marcus Aurelius stood out to me as being...
Diva Faustina I [ATTACH] Faustina II [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Diva Faustina II [ATTACH] (I should have a lifetime Faustina I issue as well -- it was...
Here's @PeteB's reverse, above mine. They really are quite close, but aren't identical in every respect. To point out one difference, the bottom...
I believe I read that thread shortly after I joined this forum in late January. I spent months after that waiting to find an example that was...
Here's a photo of my 11th edition Encyclopedia Britannica -- containing, essentially, all the cumulative knowledge of Victorian and Edwardian...
It would make me sound much more impressive if I allowed you to continue under that impression! And it"s entirely true that I began actively...
Indeed. Although by the time of my only other "captive" coin (issued by Constans around 348-350 AD), instead of portraying their captives as...
Thanks! Numiswiki indexes it as "Kampmann and Ganschow," which is why I couldn't find anything under "K&G."
Thank you. What is K&G? I couldn't find it in Numiswiki.
I understand your point, and admit that I tend to describe my 3rd century denarii and antoniniani before Gallienus as AR, even though I imagine...
I decided to revive this thread so I could post my own very first Alexandrian tetradrachm: Hadrian, Billon* Tetradrachm, Year 18 (133/134 AD),...
I was just kidding, @Roman Collector. My description now reads as follows: Trajan AR Denarius, 106 AD, Rome Mint. Obv. Laureate bust right; IMP...
I suspect that you're right, and the seller was wrong. It's an outrage! I've been snookered.
I think the seller's belief, and the reason they identified the coin as RIC 218, etc., is that in fact there is drapery on the left shoulder, but...
Some of the same issues the OP mentions were raised in this recent thread:...
This poor fellow looks like he could use a few hamburgers. Or could have been Ray Bolger's understudy in The Wizard of Oz. Trajan AR Denarius,...
Thank you both. (I didn't read across the top of the two images, or I would have put the N. CI together with the RC to get N. Circ.!) It could...
Regarding Crawford 442 (Acilius Glabrio) and 453 (Plautius Plancus), the links for both in Prof. Yarrow's latest blog post (see above), which are...
Any reason you don't want to use distilled water? You can buy gallon containers of it cheaply at most supermarkets and drugstores, or you can...
Welcome to the ancient coins forum! Here's a thread I started not long ago to show my one ancient coin with a boat (a galley) on it, from the...
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