Maybe I should just upload the photos again. My coin: [ATTACH] The Boston Museum coin: [ATTACH]
Does anyone know how to move the photo of my coin to its original location now that I tried to replace it (unsuccessfully) with a better photo?
I have a sestertius of Julia Mamaea (RIC-701) that I believe is a die match to the specimen at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (1982.613). What do...
That coin has a LOT of eye-appeal. As you note, it's hard to find one with eye-appeal. Nice!
I, too, focus on women on ancient coins. When I first started collecting this area, I tried to get one of each woman, but because several are out...
Here's mine--I bought it from Henry Clay Lindgren before he died. What mint is it from? A reference number? Any additional info would be great!...
Wow! What a story! I hope that somehow, though, you are able to recover the stolen coins.
That is indeed RIC 1719. It is also Cohen 92.
Nice!!!
Fulvia, 3rd wife of Marc Antony. Died 40 BCE L. Mussidius Longus AR Denarius, Rome mint, 42 BCE. (17 mm, 3.5 g) Obv: Draped bust of Fulvia as...
I collect women on coins. The first in my collection is my oldest. Philistis, wife of Hieron II. AR 5 litrae (4.46 gm). Syracuse, Sicily, 270-230...
This one didn't bother me because it's the plate coin of Houghton's Coins of the Seleucid Empire. Laodike IV, wife and sister of both Seleucus IV...
Love that hippo sestertius!
Marciana, sister of Trajan, Augusta, c. 105-112/4(?) CE AR Denarius (19 mm, 2.72 gm). Rome Mint, 112 AD. Obv: DIVA AVGVSTA MARCIANA, diademed and...
My best Zeus? That would be this tetradrachm of Antiochus VIII and Cleopatra Thea with Zeus Nikephoros seated l., holding lotus-tipped scepter on...
This Sestertius of Agrippina Sr. [ATTACH] And, on a related note, this has been today's earworm: [MEDIA]
Here are a few that are hard to come by: Annia Faustina, 3rd wife of Elagabalus. Augusta, 221 CE. Isinda, Pisidia, AE 26 mm. Obv: ANNIAN...
Matidia Manlia Scantilla
Well-struck, well-centered, and well-preserved! What more could a collector ask for? Nice!
You say the ridge around the flan suggests the coin is a cast copy, but it is also consistent with ancient planchet production. Moreover, the...
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