Nice coins. I had never seen a Nabataean silver piece. I have a couple of the bronze pieces.
Nice write-up and thanks for the humorous depictions. Ptolemy II also engaged in numerous building projects throughout the Nile Valley to update...
Aurelian really got around!
It is an Alexandrian tetradrachm. I can't read the legend. For me it could be Aurelian, Probus, or even Diocletian. So it is probably one of these...
Great coin. I am reminded of my Julian II Apis Bull, which isn't. The absence of the solar disk on the Julian coins leads me to believe that...
Yes, curious about the cleaning process. Yes, those were some tough times.
Numismatist for me. Or coinophile, to coin a term.
Nice coins all.
Incredible story @Cucumbor
I've got bids in on a number of Byantine folles right now from the 6th and 7th centuries in an online auction. I've kind of decided to extend my...
What a nice gesture. Hear! Hear! I am sure it will be a great addition to someones' collection.
Nice write-up and coins @kevin McGonigal ! I read Josephus in college in my Roman history class taught by the scholar Erich Gruen. Great read...
I was giving a talk one time on Hieroglyphics and an audience member came up to me claiming that aliens from the Pleiades cluster had invented...
I haven't read any of his stuff because it was typical pseudoscience.
If it is a fake, and it likely is, that was a talented forger, unfortunately.
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