Nice! Here's a real common Pax seated reverse type: [ATTACH] Rome mint, AD 70 2.73 gm; 17.7 mm Obv: IMP CAESAR VESPASIANVS AVG, laureate head,...
A female personification of Constantinople in a military helmet. The reverse depicts Victory on a prow. See this very educational website by our...
I wrote Roma about that this morning they replied promptly: "Dear Roman Collector, Thank you for your email. We are just packing up shipments as...
I just did, too! Wow!! Some serious high-end coins in that thing!
[ATTACH] Plautilla Limes Denarius Unknown mint, AD 202 2.01 g, 18.2 mm Obv: PLAVTILLAE AVGVSTAE, bare-headed and draped bust, r. Rev:...
This one is very scarce. Moreover, the crack isn't very big. Were I to wait for an uncracked one to come up for sale, I'd have to wait years....
I use "dwarves" when writing, as I use "scarves," "elves," "shelves," and so on. Apparently, one of the prominent differences between the various...
Entirely possible, if not likely. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.
Oh, yes. Having formally studied linguistics in grad school, I'm quite familiar with this. That's the crux of Grimm's law. Voiced stops become...
Do you mean the typical portrait on that coin is HEAD of Galba and yours is DRAPED BUST of Galba?
Ain't it, though?
Latin and Greek often switch H and S between them: hemi- (Greek for "half") and semi- (Latin for "half"); hebdos (Greek for 7) and septem (Latin...
ΜΕΤΑΜΒΡΙΑΝΩΝ--"Mesembria" in their dialect. Technically, it's in the genitive plural and means "of the Mesembrians." S and T are often switched...
Lovely coins, TIF!
Then there are provincials of Caligula where the celators had so little artistic ability that the coins could benefit from some tooling :smuggrin:...
I figured out why Hermanubis looks so creepy in @zumbly 's coin: [ATTACH]
That Isis/Hermanubis is one of the coolest coins I've ever seen! They say that cat Hermanubis is a bad muthah... Shut yo' mouth! I'm talking...
Interesting and informative write-up, as usual! That's what ancient numismatics is all about!
I like that Vespasian!
Lovely! That's the Isis Pharia type on my wish list.
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