Hard to decide between these coins. Both are fantastic!
I liked the song about the shuttle taking off....on the B side of the album I'm pretty sure.
Sigma Chi fraternity for me until I graduated in 1992. No coins involved in any of our activities. However, one of my frat brothers ordered all...
Nice coin @panzerman !
Bing's coin is fabulous, and a pretty good deal for the price, could have gone for much higher.
Excellent match-up, I voted for the Domitian coin but the Chinese coin is great, too! Hard to decide folks.
Looks authentic to me, but I'm no expert yet.
Here's a tet of Salonina, wife of Gallienus. I'm afraid I don't have any Domitia's yet. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] The example shows that the mint of...
Nice examples @Julius Germanicus ! I don't have a bronze of this ruler yet.
Hi @Svarog - no it was shipped on the 18th and arrived on the 23rd in NY. Made it through the ISC in less than 24 hours and now has departed the...
Who knows what that hockey puck could have purchased? Maybe some lentils and a couple of loaves of bread? Great coin.
That's a great reverse @Pellinore - usually they are not quite so well designed and struck.
It was Zurqieh @Deacon Ray so far I have been quite pleased with everything I've purchased from him.
I used olive oil bath with some LRBs that I got in a late roman uncleaned lot. It worked for some of the coins, combined with a toothbrush and...
My latest acquisition was mailed from the U.A.E. and made it though ISC NY (USPS) in one day! Yippee! Don't know how normal this is but it is a...
I actually don't either, and I had noticed that. Could be because of the small size of the flan, though.
Here's a Claudius II from my collection, fyi. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] The reverse personification seems particularly well done for this time.
I use wildwinds.com mostly too. Lately I've been collecting coins of Roman Egypt (Alexandria) and use both wildwinds.com and the Dattari list,...
Great new coin. The provenance is well worth the price of admission alone!!!
Very interesting article @Severus Alexander and very illustrative of the fact that we can connect the dots through coins and supplement the...
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