Nice coins. Full retail price, though.
Don't mind if I do! [ATTACH]
Nope! I don't mind at all! I encourage it! That's a lovely example. You can see on your coin that the empress is wearing a palla, which, along...
Amazing coins in this thread!
I think this one's genuine, though. [ATTACH] You know what they say -- after a while spouses start to look like each other. Aurelian:...
Hilarious!!! April fools to you!!
Very nice! I am still waiting for my auction wins to arrive in the mail.
That's very interesting from a historical standpoint and a nice coin with a lot of eye-appeal! I have nothing relevant to share. :(
In the course of researching the denarii of Julia Soaemias, I note that RIC lists a number of different reverse types. However, after doing a...
Nice! Here's a similar one from my collection: [ATTACH]
In Aristophanes' Lysistrata, the (Athenian) playwright tries to mimic the Spartan women's Laconian dialect. There are 70 lines of Laconian...
Every coin has a story to tell. That's what's so fun about ancient numismatics!
While researching this coin at the BMC collection online, I came across this interesting item. What these satyrs have to do with a coin of Julia...
There's nothing that makes it easy, but these are the books I'd recommend for the autodidact: For Homeric Greek -- Reading Course in Homeric...
[ATTACH] Faustina Junior, AD 161-175 Roman AR denarius, 2.82 g, 17.7 mm, 2 h Rome, AD 161-175 Obv: FAVSTINA AVGVSTA, bare-headed and draped bust,...
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They'll be here in a few days, I'm sure. The photo is from the auction.
Lovely presentation! I wish I had your computer skills.
That's an excellent point and I wish I knew even where to begin to research this. Perhaps @curtislclay has some data or thoughts on this.
One of the coins I purchased in the Frank Robinson Auction 104. We know this is the first issue of Julia Soaemias because it can be dated to AD...
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