I purchased this silver drachm several years ago from a Frank Robinson sale but never studied it even at a superficial level. I rephotographed it...
No ... that's the midline of his upper back, right below the prominent vertebra at the base of his neck.
A great introduction to the field of ancient numismatics is Wayne Sayles' Ancient Coin Collecting. It's a six-book series. Start with volume I, of...
That isn't just gorgeous "for the issue," @Al Kowsky , it's just plain GORGEOUS! This is my only ex-Morris collection coin: [IMG] Faustina II,...
Do NOT think of this as a collar with a button in the middle, below the neck: [ATTACH] Rather, it is a fibula at the tip of the shoulder,...
These are Rome mint examples, but I like 'em: [IMG] Gordian III, AD 238-244. Roman AR antoninianus, 3.62 g, 21.6 mm, 5 h. Rome mint, 2nd...
Next theme???
Real eye candy there, @Justin Lee ! Glad the sun cooperated for the photo session!
I have now acquired the middle bronze version of the coin: [IMG] Faustina II, AD 147-175/6. Roman copper alloy as or dupondius, 12.24 g, 26.1 mm,...
Another Saturday night! I've been rephotographing a few coins. A couple of Gratian maiorinae: [ATTACH] Gratian, AD 367-383. Roman Æ maiorina,...
[ATTACH] Hermaios and Calliope, 90-70 BC. Indo-Greek AR drachm, 16.2 mm, 1.80 gm. Obv: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΕΡΜΑΙΟΥ ΚΑΙ ΚΑΛΛΙΟΠΗΣ, jugate busts,...
Ah, yes ... the notorious Sadigh Gallery.
You are the sun I am the moon You are the words I am the tune… [MEDIA] The emperor as sun and the empress as moon is a recurrent theme in Roman...
They remind me of these fakes on display at a Chinese university.
What a lucky opportunity, @David Atherton ! When dealing with rarities for a specialty collection, you can't be a condition crank -- the...
Awesome! Glad you were able to acquire that rarity for your collection.
Your coin of Trebonianus Gallus (AD 251-253) was struck in autumn, AD 251, and likely alludes to a serious crisis that befell the Roman empire...
Those Antiochene coins of the Flavians make 'em all look pudgy. Here's a Domitian. Look at that bull neck! [IMG] Domitian as Caesar, AD 69-81...
I have a similar post-abdication one of Maximian with Providentia and Quies: [IMG] Maximian, post-abdication, AD 305-306 Roman billon follis,...
This one fits the theme if by "another" you mean "another of the same type"! [IMG] Trajan, AD 98-117 Roman AR denarius; 2.95 gm, 20 mm Rome, AD...
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