Well, facebook could go the way of MySpace....
Nice article and great coin! It's interesting to see, and a forgotten fact, that Roman traditions were maintained by Odoacer.
Octavian = Mark Zuckerberg
Great remnants of your collection @jamesicus - I foresee a time in the future when I will have to do the same thing. Not much interest around here...
Haha, good for a morning laugh.
Melted down? OMG. What a great find.
Nice cleaning job and a great coin!
Great finds @galba68 !
Great coins @Deacon Ray - you must be very proud. I would be. Now if I could just afford one of those Bar Kochba shekels with the temple on it...
Maxentius is one of the coins I have to purchase - great one @Ancient Aussie !
Nice coin @AussieCollector at an excellent price, congrats!
That's a pretty cool coin. I am not familiar with medieval issues, though.
Hands down Trajan. I have a semis featuring Trajan's column on the reverse.
Looks OK to me too.
It might be tooled, but I am not sure. Don't have an experienced enough eye - it is unlikely to be a fake.
Looks like a great auction. I may make some bids. I have one Probus... [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Very interesting question @Gavin Richardson ! I don't know if there any answers but it's fun to speculate. Another question I have pondered is how...
Nice pick up @Julius Germanicus - kind of hard to come by her sestertii and I'm glad that you filled a hole in your collection. Her demise was...
My Magnentius... [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Great write-up @dougsmit - I especially liked your introduction to Chinese coins of which I am not very knowledgeable. Thank you.
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