Marcus as Caesar from Alexandria: Type: AE Drachm, 33mm, 22.95 grams of Alexandria Obverse: Bare headed and draped bust of Aurelius right M...
Depressing. Imagine if you were traveling to Canada or back and couldn't prove whom you purchased your coins from. And as far as bookmaking goes I...
Yeah, 58mm, 167 grams. (Bigger than a Ptolemaic hockey puck)
I'm still going to purchase a tet of Eukratides. They come up for sale from time to time but usually go for $1,000 - $2,000 or more. Nowadays...
I use the paper envelopes. I got tired of the plastic flips cracking after a short time, plus there is more room to write down the attribution. I...
Great examples all. I have more of these than I'd care to state due to their prevalence in unclean "hoards". I'm intrigued by the shield types and...
Thank you. I'll see what I can do. In the interim, Alexius III Angelos seems to have been a tough character... "Alexios III Angelos was...
I have only photographed one of them so far, and the photo is a few years old when I was just starting out. But I will take you up on your offer!...
Very nice write-up and I am sure you had some fun identifying these trachys. Superb job of organizing and presenting them as well. I only have two...
Very interesting altar. I assume libations would be poured into the bowl on top, presumably incense mixed with oils from a patera. Great coin.
There's one born every minute...whomever buys this falls into that category!
Nice David!
Cool coins. I don't have this type yet.
Wow. Superb haul @galba68 - now to the cleaning.
I was fortunate to have a number of eminent professors, from Dr. Warren Treadgold, who considered "Byzantine" to be anything after 284 and the...
On the Facebook Ancient and Medieval Coins group today somebody showed a recent score - a complete collection of all 12 zodiac drachms of...
And today we go to Mars....landing in an hour and twenty minutes (roughly) https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/timeline/landing/watch-online/ Gordian...
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Yes, apparently a coin of Severus Alexander. One theory (not mentioned in the article) was that the coin came from the Middle East or Turkey and...
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