Fantastic, @Curtisimo! Educational and entertaining write-up, too. I've shown this many times before, but what's one more time, right? [IMG]...
Particularly unwise since it's a $20 coin.
Definitely! That's one beefcake Asklepios on that coin, @gsimonel! This is one of my favorite Asklepios coins. I'm not sure what -- if anything...
Mine's nicer! I wonder if I could get two grand for it! :joyful: [IMG] Gordian III, AD 238-244. Roman provincial Æ 21.6 mm, 7.85 g, 1h. Moesia...
My favorite Mars depicts Venus trying to lure him away from battle ... [IMG] Faustina II, AD 147-175. Roman Æ as, 11.96 g, 25 mm, 6 h. Rome, AD...
On this large maiolica "bella donna" dish in the National Gallery of Art, the name Faustina appears. This occurrence is likely no more than the...
Nice one, @ro1974! Informative write-up, too! This "brass as" of Trajan has a countermark: [IMG] Trajan. A.D. 98-117. Roman orichalcum as, 8.49...
Thanks to the work of Martin Beckmann,[1] we have been able to arrange the undated coinage of Faustina I in chronological order and, in many...
Nice! And with an interesting reverse type, too. Florian: [IMG] Florian, AD 276. Roman billon Aurelianus, 3.28 g, 21.2 mm, 12 h. Cyzicus,...
Here are my provincials featuring Claudius I: Claudius and the woman who poisoned him: [IMG] Claudius, AD 41-54 and Agrippina II, AD 50-59....
Maybe it's the same dyslexic die-engraver who omitted the P in TR P from this one. If so, he held the job for more than a decade: [IMG] Domitian,...
Empress on a tetradrachm: [IMG] Cornelia Salonina, AD 253-268. Roman billon tetradrachm; 9.95 g, 22.3 mm. Egypt, Alexandria, AD 267-268. Obv:...
Here's a Jovian from the Heraclea mint: [IMG] Jovian, AD 363-364. Roman Æ centenionalis, 3.06 g, 19.2 mm, 6 h. Heraclea, AD 363-364. Obv: D N...
I have always been fond of the peacefully grazing horses on these provincials of Alexandria Troas: [IMG] Valerian I, AD 253-260, Roman provincial...
Has anyone experienced delays in shipping from Austria to the US? Three weeks in the "Label created, not yet in system" stage.
[IMG] Claudius, AD 41-54. Billon Tetradrachm, 10.32 gm, 24.0 mm. Alexandria, AD 46. Obv: ΤΙ ΚΛΑΥΔΙ ΚΑΙΣ ΣΕΒΑ ΓΕΡΜΑΝΙ ΑΥΤΟΚΡ, laureate head of...
Nice! Here's my favorite coin from that city: [IMG] Philip II as Caesar, AD 244-247. Roman provincial Æ 25.2 mm, 7.72 g, 6 h. Phrygia, Laodicea...
Apparently just by itself.
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