Good coin. You should be very happy. The first three lines of the Meditations read: "From my grandfather Verus I learned good morals and the...
Yes, I'd love to see "before" pictures if you have them.
Here's my example, Alexander Jannaeus. Oops, it's upside down! [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Truly one of a kind...;)
If the patina looks "painted" at all then it could have been tampered with. Sometimes unscrupulous folks will add the fake patina to raise the...
Yeah, the reverse reads "Jesus Christ, King of Kings". I've got a couple of anonymous folles struck by Romanus. The obverse, of course, is the...
Looks authentic and possibly tooled as @iamtiberius points out. If it is tooled, then this would be to raise the portrait and the reverse so they...
Thanks for the analysis @Roman Collector !
Nice coin. I'm starting to collect Alexandrian tets as a specialty. I'd like to get coins of each emperor/empress...and perhaps some Ptolemies....
Great Hadrians and Sabina tet. I just bid on a large Alexandrian drachm of Antinuous - pretty rare, in F condition. Hope I win the bid. These ones...
Amazing find.
Really cool coin!
Nice tets!
Nice history write-up and a lot of great coins there. Thanks for sharing!
Nice new ones Randy. Good luck in your collecting efforts in 2018!
Great coins from the OP and also the additional photos. I'm still missing an Elagablus though I've bid on a nice Antioch tet of his in another...
Here's a lion on a Moesia Inferior (Viminacium) of Gordie III... [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
The prices on many of the coins seems to be pretty low...AR Tets of Antioch for $35. I guess the key is following the updates like a hawk and...
I think he basically specializes in World Coins and ancients, correct me if I am wrong.
Nice coin @Deacon Ray and as usual a terrific presentation! "He ended the decade-long war with the Bulgars, and initiated the second period of...
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