Here's a $15.01 (including shipping) snack: [IMG] Valerian I, AD 253-260. Roman AR antoninianus, 2.75 g, 20 mm, 7 h. Uncertain Eastern mint, 2nd...
Sabina the only empress so far? I'll rectify that. But there's a limit of five, so here are five leading up to Sabina: Julia Titi: [ATTACH]...
While you work out the rules, here's a Claudius: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Resurrecting this zombie thread because I finally obtained a workshop four (delta) PIETAS AVG like @dougsmit 's. [ATTACH] Otacilia Severa, AD...
I got an unexpected invoice today for this one, which I thought I lost! [ATTACH]
Wow, that IS a nice example, @robinjojo ! These coins typically come on flans that are too tiny for the dies and it's unusual to find a complete...
My favorite Greek coin! [IMG] Philistis, wife of Hieron II. Greek AR 5 litrae. Syracuse 270-230 BCE, 4.46 gm, 18.1 mm. Obv: Diademed and veiled...
[ATTACH] Medal, France, AR 18.09 g, 35.0 mm, 12 h. Mathias Vivier, 1831. Obv: NUTRIX QUOQUE MATER, wet-nurse seated left, holding breastfeeding...
McAlee is the catalog of his personal collection and he had many copies of several of these coins, differing only in minor details, such as the...
I have one, too! [ATTACH] Diadumenian, Caesar AD 217-218. Roman provincial Æ 16.5 mm, 4.63 g, 11:00. Syria: Seleucis and Pieria, Antioch ad...
Yes. That's exactly what I was referring to when I said ...
Thanks, everyone (especially @zumbly ). I've uncovered additional information that proves definitively it is from Apamea in Bithynia-Pontus and...
I'm pretty sure it's cast. The flan crack isn't sharp (next to impossible to replicate when casting) and is filled in. Moreover, there's the...
Another interesting thing -- Among the four coins of Faustina from Apamea in RPC IV, there is this one (RPC IV.1 4729) where the authors note...
I think you have it! Here's the listing of Antonine coins of Apamea in BMC 13, pp. 112-13. While the British Museum collection has nothing with a...
Thanks for the lead!
Leu was NUTS this weekend. People paying more for coins that are -- quite literally -- available at full retail on V Coins for half the price.
I believe @ancient coin hunter is correct here. The author of Matthew probably wrote τριάκοντα ἀργύρια (thirty pieces of silver) in 26:15 in order...
I purchased this one on eBay last night because I'd never seen anything like it. H/T to @Spaniard for informing me about it. The inscription is...
Too bad. How'd you end up with that?
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