This is a very late follow-up (!), but seeing as the second part of the sale of the Paeonia Hoard was only lightly mentioned, I thought I'd...
By dirty looking places do you mean the toning? (Toward the perimeter, lower half of the coin on both sides?) If so, that's not dirt, but toning,...
I can see why! There are obviously multiple things about this one that are special, but my eye is drawn to the shoulders, can't remember seeing...
Congrats! Finding a placeholder can be an oddly satisfying experience, relieving the stress of feeling one must find one, find one now, find it...
Yes, you are correct that Scipio Africanus (the first one, there were some others later!) lived c. 150-200 years before Julius Caesar (the last...
I'd like to know too, since I've got some of these Spink tags (not with these particular codes, but similar format). Old tags can be amazingly...
Oof, I'd love to have one of those! I missed my chance when Forvm had them available. One of the lots I got from CNG's sale of the Kenneth...
I forget what his exact role was in Spain, but after the Carthaginians were gone I think he was more like the acting general for a time. More or...
Oh, my favorite mintmark of all (I collect Roman "captives coinage"). The two captives back-to-back for Lugdunum (Lyons), c. 320 CE: [ATTACH]...
Wow, all it took was a Constantine thread to bring this place back to life! Not exactly what you may have meant, though it was struck under...
Better might be family members, or "non-emperors," since a range of different persons can appear on the coins. (And the wives were actually on...
That's a very respectable elephant denarius! If you feel dissatisfied, I'd be very happy to trade it for my own!!! [ATTACH] Here are five of the...
Aegina Land Tortoise AR Stater (Testudo Graeca Ibera) [MEDIA] Greek (Classical). Islands off Attica (Saronic Gulf), Aegina AR Stater (11.97,...
Wow, picking just one favorite RIC is harder than I realized! This may not be my one most favoritest (I probably hold that for my sentimental...
I think 10 months isn't very long ago. I have coins I bought 30 years ago that I'm still sharing for the first time. And, I guess, that it's a...
Why would they have paid anything different from that price? It would seem they're the buyer. Are you saying you think someone else may have...
Leu was right, that really is a lovely example! I pay attention to these ones at auction, since they seem like the best value for a silver RIC...
Those are good ones! This one, though: You also want to remember his "/ed/" pages, which are the "educational" ones, not the "for sale" ones:...
Here's the best of my Julian II Apis bull types. [ATTACH] Julian II AE1 “Double Maiorina” (29mm, 8.2g), struck in Nicomedia, 361-3 AD. Obverse:...
Oh that's interesting. I remembering reading a message by Phil Davis that he'd turned his collecting interests to these. Good to see the site,...
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