What an awesome aureus. Also a very Heroic bust style. I'm having a lot of difficulty in getting anything high quality these days. While I've...
Hi Ancient Joe, Yes, this is apparently the same piece. It's priced to open at 4500 CHF. My tendency is to research something a bit to find...
Thanks Ardatirion, The article was quite helpful. It went into discussion of a several hoards of the Samos electrum coins found and a bit of a...
Years ago I bought a Tiberius portrait sesterius with the Alter at Lugdunum reverse at auction. Isn't this the altar of "Rome & Augustus" at...
I have a sestersius of him: [IMG] It's ex-CNG, ca 2006. They described it as being from a collection owned by someone whose attribution I've...
While the large bronzes of Ptolemaic Egypt of this module are not rare I find them very interesting. The color and metal quality has to do with...
Thanks for your comments and sorry for my delay in posting. Your Lydian trite is really nice & historically very important. Like many, I've been...
More details to follow, I have one of those early "Geometric type" full electrum staters you touched on in your post. I'm still trying to date...
Here's mine. [IMG] This is an Aes Grave As, weight = 258 g. <s>Struck</s>, sorry, cast ca 225 - 217 BC. This was a relatively recent...
Okay, she got a new photo of it which she just sent me. Sorry for the clarity. [IMG] The housing is gold but I made the chain silver. I use a...
People who have scientific training talk like this. Everything to us are probabilities. Right now copper is $3/lb. During a Chinese copper scare...
E="stevex6, post: 1976474, member: 44183"]Yes, I'd really like to see that Pulcheria locket (cool idea) ... I have a photo my wife sent me as a...
You can also convert one of those electrical bug zappers to catch birds. Catch blue birds, blackbirds, robbins, sparrows, and hummingbirds. I...
I always wondered why 10 g copper ingots at coin shows were top sellers. In Florida 10% of the cents are copper. At 3.11g of 95% copper you can...
Well I don't have a Eudoxia although I did buy a Pucheria (her daughter). I gave it to my neice for her confirmation. I had it mounted in a...
Nice coins, In October I'll be bidding on an Arles-mint piece but not a Decentius. I am beginning to like late Empire coins but have very few of...
Thanks very much for all your help. I'll try to read further and see what I can find. Recently I saw a gold tremissis struck around 475AD....
I liked the article on the Avitus AE4 and thought it was quite well done. Also I'm quite interested in Roman coins of the 5th century but have...
Well, I'm not drawn to coins of John Anthony so there you go. Wait are there even any coins of John Anthony around? I don't suppose you have any...
It's not an 8R as the edge scalloping appear to better fit a smaller coin. The two "star like" things next to the shield on the obverse are...
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