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Sitting here at home, I've been browsing some old threads from before I joined this forum in January, looking to see if there are any to which I...
I recently bought an example of what I believe is the same coin type that @Marsman posted to open this thread last fall: a denarius of a young...
I'm afraid that the hopes for this young man's future didn't last for very long after this coin was issued. Herennius Etruscus Caesar AR...
I still buy coins -- at my price level, not HA's or CNG's -- because they make me happy. And they're a distraction. And it's money I don't need to...
I didn't order anything -- I figured I was way too late -- but I did appreciate some of the little jokes he sprinkled throughout, just to make...
Oh, and here's yet another helmeted Mars I have (in his role as Mars Ultor, or Mars the Avenger). Unfortunately, he's lost his weapon, so he'll...
Here are some helmets on Athena, Roma, Mars, and Roma, respectively. Plus a bonus miniature helmet on a miniature Mars (actually Ares) on the...
On my very mediocre example of that coin, Mars is completely clean-shaven -- no goatee, no neck beard, no long sideburns, no cigarette or...
That's a goatee, not a neck beard! Is that a cigarette in Mars's teeth?
Here's another portrait of Carus sporting the combination of a neckbeard and a receding hairline: Carus, silvered AE Antoninianus, 283 AD,...
I think that's the issue that comes up most commonly for both Zurqieh and Athena. At least for Athena, there's also the issue of artificial...
One would think that given how much has been written about Roman coins in the last 150 years or so, somebody would have come up with some sort of...
I never really noticed before, but I think you're right, even though the photos in RCV and RSC are so small that it's hard to tell sometimes....
I think it was either $28 or 28 pounds -- I forget which. For two coins, but it would have been the same charge for one.
Thanks for the correction!
I've bought several coins from them and have been very happy with them. Also, they're the seller that has recently shipped coins to me in the USA...
Gallienus has something of a neckbeard in this tigress coin as well: [ATTACH] So if Titus really has a neckbeard in that coin, does that mean...
I also checked the obverses of my small sample of 17 Roman Republican coins. 14 have right-facing busts or heads, one faces both ways (Janus on...
Every single denarius and antoninianus I have from Augustus onwards has a right-facing bust until I get to Probus. (After Probus, I have some 20...
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