I notice that on several of these -- you can see it very well on mine -- the crown is enormously too big for his head. I wonder if that was a...
Guess which Saloninus I have! [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Fantastic! I tried counting emperors (including usurpers) from Nerva through Maximinus Thrax, and kept coming up with 19. Are you counting Aelius...
For anyone who might not know, I suppose I should have pointed out that Julia Soaemias and Julia Mamaea were sisters.
Here are a couple of coins with Venus reverses: Julia Soaemias (mother of Elagabalus). AR Denarius 220-222 AD, Rome Mint. Obv. Draped bust right,...
Here's a Trajan Fortuna Redux denarius. I can't date it more specifically than to say it's from 112 AD or later, the beginning of his sixth (and...
Just bought the first one on Kindle!
I just finished Hilary Mantel's new novel "The Mirror and the Light", the third in her trilogy about the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell, after...
A Pax on a coin of a peaceful man: Commodus AR Denarius 181 AD. Obv. Laureate head right, M COMMODVS ANTONINVS AVG/ Rev. Pax standing left,...
I don't have any examples besides Nerva to post personally, but I think if you use one of the search engines like the cng archives to find...
One more revived old thread today -- you can see I'm looking for ways to pass the time! -- so I can post my only coin of Volusian. Volusian (son...
Thanks. I think that's the most likely answer. Not that I really know anything much about leaves -- I grew up in Manhattan!
Another old thread revived, to give myself an opportunity to post my one coin of Crispus: Crispus Caesar, Billon reduced Centenionalis, Arelate...
If that's their usual practice, I would never buy from them no matter how nice their coins might be. One bad experience with a...
On the general subject of display, I have a couple of questions about one antiquity that I haven't previously posted a photo of here, either in...
Is that supposed to be Vespasian himself on the reverse? It certainly looks like a male figure much more than the one on the reverse of the...
It will be interesting to see what happens in the near future with the art market (including the antiquities market) -- which, of course, dwarfs...
I'm sure there are many; I'd like to think there are lots of them among collectors of ancient coins. Which, after all, I consider a rather...
You've been posting lots of good resources lately, @David Atherton. Thank you. (From a former long-time subscriber to Skeptical Inquirer.) Of...
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