What are we on, miscellaneous critters, no eagles or lions? OK, here's a bison. [IMG]
Aahhh, Etsy. Quite the source of comedic coin listings.
Wow! Ain't you a lucky duck!
Perhaps the reference that the seller of that coin was citing only included grades as low as VG. Most won't include AG.
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Roadkill.
C. I'm as generalist as they come. The proverbial "jack of all trades and master of none".
No fair!!! Everyone must immediately stop posting bronze drachms UNTIL I HAVE ACQUIRED ONE! :arghh:
Though this Antoninus Pius of course predates Diocletian by quite a bit, I think this reverse is GENIVS POP ROMANI? [IMG]
Oh, I want one of that type! Can't afford one, though.
Well, I had this first one on my clipboard already, as it happens. I like capricorns, as I just mentioned in another thread. [IMG] I liked the...
I like that type in the OP. :) [IMG] I like capricorn designs in general (that's my astrological sign). [IMG]
That's better than having them scan our money and deduct our retinas, I suppose. :jimlad:
Oh, yes! I forgot. Sicily, Akragas: silver hemidrachm, ca. 410-406 BC Obverse- eagle right, clutching dead hare in its talons, barley grain...
Pontos, Amisos. Silver drachm or siglos featuring Hera and winged bullfrog owl, ca. late 5th to 4th century BC. [ATTACH]
I'm pretty good at geography, but have often had to lean on Google Maps during the course of this thread. ;)
I saw the type Bing linked up when I was browsing Wildwinds, but I don't think that's quite it. Still, it looks to me like it's a Roman...
Then again, I could imagine I see Trajan Decius there, too...
Pareidolia just kicked in, and I realized that the coins on the cover of that book make a smiley face. I wonder if FSR intended that. I wouldn't...
I'm clueless, but the portrait looks kind of like Maximinus Thrax to me? Except he's usually got a much more prominent chin. Hm.
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