Great gift. Good luck on upgrading your astronomy gear @Sallent as well.
The one with Victory on it is a Constantinople commemorative coin. One series was struck for Constantinople, one for Rome.
Nice galley coin @gogili1977 !
Looks authentic to me but slightly over polished.
Nice later roman bronzes with some good variety there. That one with DOMINOR NOSTROR CAESS on the reverse is pretty cool
I'm all in.
I no longer clean LRB's as it can be tedious and not exactly worth one's while to "save" coins that might be worth $10 at best. Great find @galba68 !
I think they all are in museums - the first large cache of these paintings were found in the Fayyum region of Egypt, some others at Antinopolis....
Here is an encaustic wax portrayal attached to a mummy of a woman suggestive of the style of Sabina, Hadrian's wife, discovered at Antinopolis and...
I saw the Nilometers at Elephantine (Aswan) and Abydos (Seti's Temple) on my trip to Egypt a few years back...also saw Antinopolis too, across the...
Great coins @TIF - many thanks!
THANKS @Roman Collector !
I just received this coin today, struck in Alexandria in the year 127-128 A.D. It is a good example of the "Nilos reclining" type, and I am rather...
Very nice @Curtisimo - I don't have any Sassanians but I do have a couple of Khosro II's counterpart Heraclius'. Here's a folle struck at...
Don't worry @TIF - there seems to be enough to go around!!!
I pulled the trigger again and now have a drachm of Hadrian (wow, big and chunky!!!) arriving tomorrow - it just hit the SF airport USPS facility....
Great coin resembling a medallion @ro1974 !!! I think it says IMPERATOR VII in the exergue on the reverse. A terrific find - you should be very...
Re: the moon landing I wasn't born yet (that was 1970) but I did enjoy the later landings (which I do remember). My mom also bought TANG instant...
1st one is a bronze coin of Constantine II as Caesar. 2nd one is a silver antoninianus of Trajan Decius.
Very nice @jamesicus - thanks for sharing these fine coins.
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