My one Maximinus coin: Maximinus I Thrax AR Denarius, 236/38 AD. Obv. Laureate bust right, draped & cuirassed, MAXIMINVS PIVS AVG GERM/ Rev....
I just finished reading a novel by Robert Low (author of the Whale Road series of books about Vikings) entitled Beasts Beyond the Wall. See...
Thanks! I saw that -- a great resource to go with OCRE and CRRO.
Thank you! I had guessed by looking at Wildwinds that it was the coin listed as Hoover HGC 1200, SNG Israel 2554-2555, Newell 405, but there are a...
Believe me, I understand that kind of superstition -- which I would simply call being cautious. And it did occur to me not to count my chickens,...
I bid on 8 coins and won these four (obviously, these are Frank's photos): [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] This was the first coin auction...
Wow! How do you have time for anything else?
Map reproductions are almost always on modern paper -- which looks and feels completely different from the paper used for maps in the 16th-18th...
Thank you. I gather that there's no way of reversing its effects. Too bad, because the coin "in hand" doesn't look nearly as attractive as in...
If one looks at the silver denarii that dealer "A" has for sale (or has sold) on Vcoins, one can see that a lot of them seem to have an almost...
I actually wouldn't be surprised if they did. It's not as if they looked like fabulous buried treasure! If they had been gold coins, my opinion...
One of my "city views": a view of the city of Freiburg in Baden, from 1549. My maternal grandmother was born in a Black Forest village not far...
A map of "Modern Rome," from about 1630. I bought it in Rome in 2008, when I took my son there on vacation as a high school graduation present....
My educated guess would be that well over 90% of antique maps for sale come from old atlases. (I've been collecting antique maps and city views...
Thanks for the explanation.
The top of the horse's head and the wreath are cut off of the obverse of this coin, and the horse's legs look weirdly stretched out. (Does anyone...
I admit I had never heard of Talbot Mundy, but I just read the surprisingly gigantic Wikipedia article about him. He sounds a bit like H. Rider...
Thanks for the recommendations. I did read the first book in Sutcliff's series a few years ago and liked it. I kept up for a very long time with...
Thanks for the recommendations! I read I, Claudius and Claudius the God when I was in high school -- probably around the time I saw the original...
A beautiful lekythos! The figures are definitely similar (see the attached closeup of mine), but they're not identical -- your guy's lower legs...
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