Interesting- I just posted on a thread here(dioscuri coin) how the Dioscuri and their twin white horses are a key to many religious traditions. I...
Nice coin- they are a key to how many of the religious traditions ancient and modern interconnect. and their two white horses! It is quite rare-...
Thanks, will check it out.
Did they have one of these- the great numismatic mystery? I still believe that it is not a Judaea Capta. On the contrary the vertical placement of...
amazing coin
Love it!
Look, it is not a matter of being "foreshadowed" in my understanding. There is some reading that might help your understanding of the goddess...
[ATTACH] another eastern veiled Goddess: Bronze AE 20, references: RPC I 4056, SNG Levante 1324, SNG PfPS 925, SNG Hunterian 2362; SNG BnF -,...
This is where the Romans picked up the fashion? Carian Islands. Kos 280-250 BC. AE12. Veiled female head right/crab with club below Sear Greek...
terribly off flan but fine Greek silver and 100% real.[ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Also someone posted previously once, i think it may have been @dougsmit ? not sure but someone said that there really are few if any truly...
Wow- cool find. @Nicholas Molinari is an expert on these so you will soon have a plate coin! Here is my only unpublished as far as I know(and...
[IMG] same size; AP left is rare https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/lodge_antiquities/88/product/antoninus_pius_ae_as_138__161_ad/928377/Default.aspx
Not being an expert in the intricacies of the socio-political changes of that part of the world during those tumultuous centuries I could only...
pleasingly pretty coin
[ATTACH] OK- so I know this coin has little monetary value- it was only a dollar or so. It is just that it is VERY different from any coin I have...
Cool coins indeed. No Geta for me, damn it, but here is a Hecate triple form. I believe she is rare on coins? not sure? In any form. Phrygia,...
@THCoins and @Parthicus
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Does this have a kind of BD that will cause it to disintegrate over time? The patina is very uniform over the faces of the...
Noticed you go for especially rare issues. Have you read any of the articles on the rarity issue in ancients? Like the one by Warren Esty? This...
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