Great additions to your collection, @7Calbrey! Fun stuff! I like them all, particularly the Samaritan of Volusian one depicting Dionysus riding...
Fantastic coins, @dougsmit! You had a great year when it comes to acquisitions! I definitely agree with your choice of the Albinus with Severus...
A great start to your ancient collection! My favorites are the Marcus Aurelius, the barbarous VRBS ROMA, and the Trajan quadrans. I like the...
Nice catch, @DonnaML! A scarce one. Here's one featuring the elusive Cornelia Supera: [IMG] Cornelia Supera, wife of Aemelian, Augusta, 253 CE....
Wonderful acquisitions for your collection! All worthy of a number one spot!
Fantastic!! All in nicely-toned denarii, too! I like that reverse type on the Verus. Historically interesting.
I suppose if you mean this in a "lustrous, high-grade, 'I can't believe it's 1900 years old'" way, it's maybe this one: [ATTACH] Next: someone...
Let's catalog this thing, shall we? Here's the relevant listing of inscriptions and bust types in RIC vi, p. 206. [ATTACH] This is inscription...
Beautiful! What a graceful and artistic depiction of Athena! The coin has very attractive cabinet toning, too!
A fun and attractive group, @singig! I will post one coin of each of these emperors, choosing some I haven't posted in a while. Claudius II....
I have always wanted one of these Faustina elephant carpentum coins and put what I considered to be a competitive bid. I was blown out of the...
Words change over time, often in set patterns (Grimm's law, for example). Metathesis is one form of linguistic change and it often occurs with...
Aelius was a handsome young man who would have been emperor but died too soon. [IMG] Aelius, Caesar AD 136-138 Roman orichalcum sestertius Rome,...
[ATTACH] [IMG] Divus Augustus, 27 BC - 14 AD. Roman Æ as, 9.30 g, 28.4 mm, 7 h. Rome, issued under Tiberius, AD 22-30. Obv:...
This Caracalla has a big gash on the cheek, like the classic GI Joe! [IMG] Caracalla as Caesar, AD 195-198. Roman AR denarius, 2.46 g, 18.5 mm,...
Very cool, @Orfew! And with a provenance to a specific hoard! Nice!! Here's my most photogenic Vespasian: [IMG] Vespasian, AD 69-79. Roman AR...
Laodicea ad Lycum was an ancient city about 75 miles (120 km) east of Ephesus, situated in the Roman Province of Phrygia Pacatiana on a high...
[MEDIA] In AD 260, Postumus led a rebellion against Emperor Gallienus, heir and son of Valerian I. Postumus succeeded in capturing Gaul, Spain...
I do love a nice Faustina I! That's a lovely coin, @Restitutor! Gorgeous! Here's my humbler example, with the obverse legend broken as DIVA...
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