It's interesting how very different the portraits on the obverse dies look on our two examples of this coin.
Some boyish-looking portraits on coins I have of Geta, Caracalla, Elagabalus, and Valerian II (all sellers' images): Geta Caesar AR Denarius 202...
I have two dolphin-rider coins, one from Tarentum and one Roman Republican coin. First: Tarentum, Calabria. AR Nomos (didrachm), ca. 302-280 BCE....
I took those two photos specifically because I remembered your posts about the one you bought, and thought you might appreciate them! This past...
Thanks! As far as I was able to see, their collection of Roman Republican coins still isn't on display (other than the one photo I posted of...
My main disappointment with the ROM: they have no guidebook, and haven't published a general book about their collections since 1963!* It's the...
Metal-eating Termites?
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Some of their collection from the Greek world: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Apologies for the blurriness...
Unfortunately, it's not possible in most of the photos I took of the ROM's coin collection to see the individual coins very clearly. So I'm...
Unidentified: [ATTACH] The line of busts as a group: [ATTACH] A relief showing a delivery to a shopkeeper: [ATTACH] A sleeping Cupid:...
I was in Toronto from Friday until last night visiting my son at the U. of Toronto, and thought I'd post some photos I took of sculptures and...
Thank you! Sounds wonderful.
Thanks -- I can't wait! My son tells me that there's also a wonderful Asian art collection.
By the Rom, do you mean the Royal Ontario Museum? I'm in Toronto for the weekend visiting my son (he's in the Art History PhD program at the U of...
I notice one major difference in the obverses between Bing's new coin and the one I posted, that I haven't seen addressed anywhere: in mine, there...
I take 65 as the official number. After all, it qualifies me for various "senior" discounts!
@Alegandron, in my post above about my Athenian owl, I mentioned that in addition to the test cut on the reverse in the owl's face, there is also...
Given that Athenian Owls were, for a long time, the most common coin used in international trade (and were used more as bullion than as coins),...
I officially became a senior citizen yesterday, so I guess I can relate now to all those old Romans.
Thanks.
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