My favorite ancient mom ... [ATTACH]
One of the characteristics of the "branch mint" (formerly assigned to Mediolanum) style on T-bone's coins is a pointy nose. [ATTACH]
Wow, @Marsyas Mike, that's a regular hoard of 1155s!!! Here's my 1143. I'd tell you it looks better in hand, but I'd be lying. [ATTACH] Faustina...
Fun error!
Great acquisitions for the Numophylacium Scoobae! Here's my Fonteius! [IMG] Mn. Fonteius C.f., 85 BC. Roman AR Denarius, 3.97 g, 21.0 mm, 5h....
Great detective work, @DonnaML, and a lovely coin! How about a Vesta coin with an old ticket? This one came from the collection of Dr. Walter...
I have never previously posted these coins here at CT although they not new acquisitions. Each has its faults. The artistry on the well-worn...
[IMG] Sabina, AD 117-137 Roman provincial Æ 17.3 mm, 4.65 g. Trachonitis, Gaba, AD 134-135. Obv: ΒΑC-CΑΒЄΙΝΑ, bare-headed and draped bust right....
It's common for ancient fouree forgeries to have the reverse of one ruler muled to the obverse of another. This fouree of Orbiana, for example, is...
Here are a couple I purchased from them for my Faustina sub-collection: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
1st century sestertius: [IMG] Agrippina I, wife of Germanicus, 14 BC - AD 33 Roman AE Sestertius 27.92 gm, 34.8 mm, 7 h Rome mint. Struck under...
I have a few iridescent denarii of Faustina I. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
That's very cool, @David Atherton! I don't have any hawks or falcons in my collection. The only raptors I have are eagles.
Neat, @gsimonel! I have a lot of swimming river gods, but this is the only reclining one in my collection -- my Rhine River coin: [IMG]...
It's a First Jewish Revolt prutah. Like @philologus_1's specimen here.
That Faustina isn't going to fool anyone!
Could there be anything more foreboding of doom than to be a Caesar in the third century? Just being declared Princeps Juventutis ("Head of...
What nose? [IMG]
This one features R2D2 and Princess Leia on the reverse :D [IMG] Theodosius I, AD 379-395. Roman AE half centenionalis, 0.86 g, 12.8 mm. Dagobah,...
The way auction prices are going these days, the new Twelve Caesars collector would do well to get Otho, Claudius, Calligula, Vitellius and Galba...
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