Thanks so much - I didn’t even think of seeing if Wildwinds had a Bulgarian section.
Thanks / Bulgarian would make sense since a medieval Bulgarian bronze from the same era was also sent to me as part of the group but since it was...
All are now up - any ideas? Sorry I didn't realize that I repeated these
OJ - all of them are now up -
fixed it -
One aspect of our hobby that I love is attributing unknown coins, especially Greek bronzes. Sometimes it goes fast - my starting point is the...
My dad's name was Peter - great name!
Somehow I never saw this post. This gives me the information I was looking for about the coin. Oddly enough there is a very worn/rough example...
I had thought about collecting sestertii from his reign but decided I could not afford it. His later sestertii seem to be smaller and lighter...
I recently read the ancient historian Herodian's section on Maximinus, in the Loeb eidition, with lengthy notes from the translator, which gave me...
One more comment on the issue of flans - I once had a Dive Faustina sestertius that had a flan that was identical in all respects to a Commmodus...
The flan has looks like similar to a couple of my Caracalla sestertii, good size but narrow in width - a very pleasing look. Both of these are...
Thanks - 22 years and still going strong.
This is a spectacular coin and nicely photographed - can you post the weight and size? Thanks - Blake
How did this coin beautiful survive?
Sorry about the shipping payment but would love to see the coins!
This is such a helpful post that I come back to again and again - thanks so much! BTW - I have searched for Turcan’s study online - no luck so...
Oddly enough my son is also in Toronto doing post doc work for the university of Toronto - I was there for a night in 1977. Seemed like a nice city.
supposed to snow too
wait a second - is it this weekend?
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