Muybridge is fascinating. I first read about his work when I was a kid. One of the volumes of the Time-Life Library of Science showed Muybridge's...
That's a lovely coin, @red_spork! I like the heron/stork control mark. Interesting biographical information about the moneyer, too. Here's a...
This is my prettiest portrait of Otacilia. [ATTACH]
Here's a Justin! [ATTACH] Justin I, AD 518-527. Byzantine Æ follis, 17.03 g, 34.3 mm, 7 h. Constantinople, 4th officina, AD 518-527. Obv: D N...
It's high time the fellow added some Faustina coins to his collection! ;) [MEDIA] Here are my examples of his Faustina I denarii. [ATTACH]...
Well, here's dead Augustus in honor of the day! [ATTACH]
[IMG] Philistis, wife of Hieron II. Greek AR 5 litrae. Syracuse 270-230 BCE, 4.46 gm, 18.1 mm. Obv: Diademed and veiled head, l., palm branch...
This one hammered for 8 times the starting bid. Crazy! But it's mine now. [IMG] Faustina II, AD 147-175. Roman AR denarius, 3.60 g, 19 mm, 1 h....
Banduri, writing in 1718, states that "Magnia Urbica, who appears to be the wife of Carus Augustus, is known only through coins." (Magnia Urbica...
Yep! The Three Stooges! [IMG]
That is a denarius of Faustina the younger. It likely dates to c. 161-163. That is a very lovely example!
What an interesting discovery, @red_spork! Fascinating write-up and good-looking coin! Dioscuri and ROMA, but not anonymous. [IMG] L....
Here's a coin of Mercury: [IMG] Gallienus, AD 253-268. Roman silvered billon antoninianus, 4.25 g, 21.3 mm, 11 h. Antioch, AD 267. Obv: GALLIENVS...
[ATTACH] Hermaios and Calliope, 90-70 BC. Bactrian AR drachm, 16.2 mm, 1.80 gm. Obv: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΕΡΜΑΙΟΥ ΚΑΙ ΚΑΛΛΙΟΠΗΣ, jugate busts, right....
Are you familiar with THIS site? Granted, it doesn't mention spelling errors and such, which are just idiosyncratic features of a particular die...
I still need a Romulus. I have 126 different emperors/family members in my collection but you know how it is ... [ATTACH]
It was only $1600 ... before buyer's fees and shipping and stuff.;)
The closest you'll come to a portrait sestertius is this posthumous issue by Octavian. [ATTACH]
Tell me about it! The price I paid for a Faustina II denarius at today's Leu auction would have been inconceivable a year and a half ago. [IMG]
Addendum et Corrigendum I erred when I first posted this in implying there were only two issues to commemorate the birth of Marcus Annius Verus....
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