Another spectacular write-up, Jochen. Thank you. At the risk of repeating myself, I just posted my one and only Olbia coin on another thread a...
Since Olbia is back in rotation, I thought I'd share a countermarked coin from there. I got a great deal of attribution help for this one from...
That looks like a Littleton Coin Co. attribution flip with the "Littleton" crossed out. I see this kind of thing on eBay a lot - the coin and the...
Jochen - I am very flattered you have included my coin as a part of the FORVM Nikopolis Addendum! Thank you so much for including me. I will...
Terrific write-up, Gary. A while back I got a Roman Provincial that references Tiberius & Livia's aid to Sardes after the earthquake of 17 A.D....
Lovely coin, David. The way the columns on the temple sort of "fade out" behind the standing figures is interesting - an effort to keep the...
That is an exceptionally interesting write-up, Jochen. I really enjoyed reading this. Sort of along the same lines, I have a Nikopolis ad...
The OP looked legit to me, but that Bulgaria return address is a bit scary. I just went through the forgery network and didn't see this type for...
Very interesting and well-written write-up.
I really like hearing about finds like this one. Good score, Aleph. Doug makes a compelling case for why this sort of thing happens. While...
Some very nice Trajans here. I have a couple, but they are pretty rough - below is the best one I have (if that's any indication of the overall...
Odoacar! He isn't even on my radar - one of the unobtainables for me. Great score.
So, back in 1987, one of my first ancient coin purchases was this Alexander drachm: [ATTACH] Macedonia Kingdom Drachm Antigonus I Monophthalmus...
What an enjoyable post - I really like the various facets of collecting posted here. As for me, quantity over quality... and even as I say that I...
Great write-up and I really find your website useful, Valentinian (on many topics - I hit it a lot). I just posted this elsewhere, but here is a...
I really appreciate that general information on the VOTA SVSCEP DECEN, Clavdivs - I recently got a sestertius that is just like - or similar to -...
Thank you for the link, Mithril. And welcome to CoinTalk - it is a great place to hang out. :) Last week I found several examples of C26 that...
A very illuminating and alarming post - I had no idea there were so many varieties on that MER RIC website (thanks Roman Collector). This came in...
Wow. Those are indeed lovely.
Lovely portraits in this post. Faustina II portraits are interesting to me because of the range of styles - her earlier issues show her as a...
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