Neat coin! The only bee I have is a very tiny one on this silver drachm: [ATTACH]
Wow, that is a beautiful coin @Curtisimo!
Nice work @Noah Worke !
Update! I received a replacement set of felt circles, this time much more the color I had originally wanted. The more vibrant red is perfect IMO,...
Here is one for @David Atherton : [IMG] What first drew me to this coin was the impressive portrait - done in typically fine style, and in...
Cool looking image, but it doesn't look much like Hadrian to me. I see more Nero in it than anyone else. Maybe it's just because there's no beard?
Beautiful cistophorus!
Wow, that does sound excessive. The planchets were typically heated I believe, so there shouldn't have been a need for that much striking force.
:jawdrop: Wow! An absolutely stunning collection! Congratulations and thanks for sharing!
Philip I?
I see what you are saying but I don't find it particularly convincing. Considering how rarely bridges do appear on coinage, it would seem that it...
I don’t know who comes to your mind when you think of the quintessential Roman military Emperor, but for me, I think of this guy: [IMG] (Bust of...
Yes, an important Roman civil war that had nothing whatever to do with the classical Greek history and culture you were talking about. The EID...
@GinoLR It's a Roman coin, not a Greek one. The coin itself and the circumstances of its minting have nothing whatever to do with the Greek...
Beautiful!
Yeah, I like the obverse more on No. 2 but the donkey head on No. 3 is pretty appealing!
Cool! I have a very similar type: [ATTACH] Also funny you should start a topic like this because I have just recently purchased one of the...
Sad. I'm not usually a fan of the repatriation game, but obviously in cases of clear looting/smuggling it is to be expected.
@sand and @Cherd Here is a bit more history behind the coin, from this online CoinWeek article: Hadrian “Medallic” Sestertius 135 CE Struck at...
That's a tough question to answer. Roman coins, unlike the earlier Greek coins, tended to be focused more on Imperial messaging and propaganda and...
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