Hey Mikey, nice coin, but you may want to reduce the size of the image a bit. Just a suggestion.
BTW, does anyone recognize the countermark? When I expand the image it looks like a bust facing left with a crown of sorts.
Looking forward to seeing them.
Afew weeks ago, I purchased this AE19 of Antigonos II Gonatas on a whim. Its not pretty, but it's from an era of which I have few coins. Plus I...
Interesting.
It's a very pleasing Byzantine, and you know I'm not a Byzantine collector just because they usually are not. Hope you don't have to wait too...
Claudius was the hardest for me. Congrats. Titus and Domitian should be easy, while I believe Tiberius and Galba will be a little harder and...
Roman9: Really decent detail on that lion.
Likely we may never know.
Problem with this theory Al is that there was relatively few eras of peace, so that there should always be left facing portraits.
Like TIF, I only own one gold Ancient: [ATTACH] VALENS AV Solidus OBVERSE: DN VALENS PER F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped & cuirassed bust right...
Interesting. Thanks for the link.
Crystallized? That's OK. Love it. Still a wonder how they did it.
As TIF said,
What else can be said? This is an outstanding piece and one most of us would like to be able to call our own. Congratulations.
Low grade or not, it's an emperor I would like to add to my collection and I would be glad to have it (depending on price, of course). BTW, he...
Titus: [ATTACH] Domitian: [ATTACH]
This may be the nicest of it's type I've seen. Very nice toning as well. I have a very poor example of this type: [ATTACH]
Excellent!
Makes sense, but, like Chris said, some scoundrel will always find away around the safeguards. There are fouree serrated coins.
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