@Orfew- that was the major selling point for me as well. Be sure to check out the alternate photos. Though technically rather modest in grade,...
@stevex6- "coinpliments" is a most excellent word, and should be included in the Oxford English Dictionary, I say! The (six?) ancients I posted...
It is indeed. I have enjoyed it raw for many months. It is destined for a plastic slab eventually, to be consistent with my Box of 20, but in...
@stevex6- That is the very first "Shabamm!!!" I have ever received, and love it! Hope to earn more! LOL
You are correct. I am moving over to CoinTalk full time. However, once I catch up on the overdue housekeeping and reposting of older material, I...
I am only just now getting around to moving my stuff from the Collectors Universe Forums over to here. I have in the last year become...
@ab initio- thank you for this detailed backstory!
In this particular case, and with most of the relatively few ancients in my "Eclectic Box of 20", I buy them "naked" and then "clothe" (most would...
PS- @Eaglefawn again, but to everyone else as well: who says I'm not a family member of yours? Are we not all one big numismatic family? Shoot...
Today I have moved my ancient coin subthreads over here to CoinTalk. So that's about 6 down and 14 to go, I guess. Eventually my Collectors...
@Eaglefawn, yours is exactly the kind of detailed compliment I like to receive. It made my week. Thank you. :shame: Limiting one's self always...
Ancient Byzantine Empire: gold tremissis of Justinian I, ca. 527-565 AD [IMG] [IMG] Obverse: D N IVSTINIANVS P P AVI, pearl diademed, draped,...
Thanks. I will. Took a peek a while back, but had since forgotten. Let me get all my present reposts up and running, and then I'll give that...
I'll be rolling out quite a few things until I get my Box of 20 transitioned from CU over to here. Then I can link all these new threads up to my...
Ancient Roman Empire: silver denarius of Septimius Severus, "Dea Caelestis" type, ca. 193-211 AD [IMG] [IMG] Obverse: SEVERVS PIVS AVG,...
Ancient Roman Empire: orichalcum sestertius of Hadrian, 134-138 AD, ex-Boston Museum of Fine Arts [IMG] Obverse: HADRIANVS AVG COS III P P,...
(Newer thread here.) [IMG] Obverse: DIVVS AVGVSTVS VESPASIANVS, laureate head right. Reverse: two Capricorns supporting shield inscribed S C,...
Roman Republic: silver denarius of moneyer L. Furius Brocchus; Ceres and curule chair, ca. 63 BC [IMG] NGC Ch VF; Strike 5/5, Surface 4/5....
Greece (Kingdom of Macedon): silver "Mercenaries" drachm of King Perseus, ca. 175-170 BC [IMG] NGC Ch MS; Strike 5/5, Surface 5/5. Additional...
Pseudo- Rhodes. A Macedonian imitative issue to pay for mercenaries to fight off those pesky Romans in the Third Macedonian War. (Didn't...
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