How awful! I am sure Marcus Licinius Crassus must have found that act difficult to swallow!
I heard that toilet paper is being hoarded by shoppers in order for families to make lots of toilet paper origami while confined to their homes....
That's a very nice bulk lot. Quite often bulk lots provide opportunities to obtain really nice coins at a reasonable price.
Yes, Caracalla, and Caligula who had Tiberius murdered (suffocated in bed, as described in I Claudius). He then went on, as emperor, murder...
No. The collection is stored, and is in serious need of organizing, labeling and photographing. I procrastinate.
That's a well struck and centered example, with nearly full legends. Nice!
We are certainly living through tumultuous times, with covid-19 posing as the latest threat to our health and well-being. Of course, history is...
Those are very interesting examples. Based on the weights, they appear to be drachm to obol. The Arabian imitations are expressed as unit and...
That might be true, or that recessed area is due to corrosion. There's a definite loss of detail. The rest of the portrait is very nice.
Agree
I really like the bust. It is very well modeled for this period. No, I haven't examined the under-type yet.
That's a really nice bust of Postumus.
Ah, I see. No the ingot is not mine, but the Nerva tetradrachm is. My apologies.
Here's a double sestertius that I picked up last year from Roma Numismatics. Postumus Æ Double Sestertius. Colonia Agrippinensis, circa AD...
No. I don't nearly have the shekels to buy something like that.
Okay, Next: the imperious look.
Here's a cast Roman ingot (1,461 grams). While not exactly a coin, it was used in transactions, I'm pretty sure. [ATTACH] How about that...
Thank you. I've focused on the imitative Attica tetradrachms because of their wide variation as well, in a historical context, of their...
I think you have a L I think you have a follis of Leo the Wise. Both coins are very nice examples.
I just want to expand on my view on cleaning coins, especially ancient coins. When I was young (a little bit of Jethro Tull) I began collecting...
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