The best news is that George Washington will no longer have spaghetti hair, but his hairstyle will revert to the original bust as Flanagan intended.
Since the idea of the game is to form a thematic chain from one post to the next, it would be a bronze coin of Alexandria, because the one I...
Paulina and Otacilia Severa, to be sure, because they are very fine examples of the type, but as far as sheer rarity goes, I admire the Plotina...
Livia was born in January, 58 BC and would have been 67 or 68 at the time this coin was struck, so she's the oldest woman on a coin in my...
Harpocrates as a crocodile! How cool is that?!
This is a new purchase and it's still in the mail. But I couldn't wait to show it off and I'm running out of coins to discuss on Tuesdays, so here...
You could just link to the page for RIC VII Siscia 240 at OCRE. That's hard to say, but I'd go with A rather than Δ, because it wasn't uncommon...
All enviable coins, @jb_depew! All of them would be tied for #1 were that my list. I like the facing Gorgoneion and the youth on dolphin of...
The link to Wildwinds under the Sear number takes me to the wrong page there.
BMCRE is better than RIC but it only goes up to Severus Alexander-Balbinus and Pupienus. Sear is my workhorse reference.
Thanks for the kind words. Those are some very desirable coins!!
You want irregular flans, you gotta go Byzantine! [IMG] Tiberius II Constantine AD 574-582 and Anastasia. Byzantine Æ half-follis, 5.02 g, 20.4...
Wonderful coin, @Steelers72! How about a T-Bone? [IMG] Trebonianus Gallus, AD 251-253. Roman AR Antoninianus, 3.78 g, 24 mm, 7 h. Rome, AD...
That has all the information one would need. The size in mm is off by tenfold, however (a typo).
What a haul!! The Nomos from Tarentum is my favorite, simply because I know nothing about sceattas.
Interesting and fun that Aigospotamoi means "goat rivers" in Greek.
Thank you so much for contributing your knowledge of ancient mythology and mythography to the discussion. I certainly must rethink my...
The Empress Sabina, wife of Hadrian, died sometime in the winter of AD 137-38. The Rome mint issued eight posthumous consecration issues, which...
Yep! Double die match!
Food -- a pomegranate -- on a prutah of Alexander Jannaeus: [IMG] Alexander Jannaeus (Yehonatan), 103-76 BC. Judean Æ Prutah, 2.25 g, 13.8 mm....
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