Welcome @Herodotus ! As you can guess from my username and avatar pic, my primary interest is coins of the Parthians, but I am also actively...
If I had to pick one of the "12 Caesars" as my favorite, it would have to be Vespasian. He seems to me the most humanly relatable of the lot-...
I'm sorry to hear of your loss. You have my sincere condolences. You asked for weird portraits? The guy on the obverse of this coin looks like...
Very nice medieval Armenian coins in this thread. My only medieval Armenian is a silver, but the denomination is apparently a takvorin, and it...
Nice OP coin, and an excellent write-up. I have an Alexander-style tetradrachm struck by Seleukos I in Babylon: [ATTACH]
Very cool OP coins (and in the replies), amazing to find such coins for $1 each. I have a few Indian coins, the most relevant is probably this AE...
@svessien : Yes, it's always worth buying a Parthian coin. They're kind of like potato chips: You swear you're going to eat just one, and then...
Nice OP coin of this unknown-to-history rebel. I haven't added any of his coins to the Parthicus Collection Mark II yet, sorry I don't have one...
Here's my sole win from Frank S. Robinson's most recent auction: [ATTACH] Indo-Parthians. Abarshahr mint (?). AE drachm. Successors of...
All are from China. Top row, middle is Daoguang (1821-1850), Board of Works mint. Top row, right is Qianlong (1736-1795), Board of Revenue mint....
Very nice! I placed a lowball bid on that coin, glad it went to a fellow CTer.
Another coin from late 2019, and a little outside my usual collecting area: [ATTACH] Cappadocia. AR drachm. Ariobarzanes I (96-63 BC), Year 5....
That's a great Vespasian bronze portrait! Here's my own Vespasian sestertius, with a slightly less substantial but still attractive portrait:...
It's been nearly two days since I last posted a Parthian coin, so enjoy this: [ATTACH] Parthian Kingdom. Mithradatkart mint. Mithradates III...
I won one coin (out of three bid on). Had to increase my initial bid on the winning coin (on Frank's advice), but it worked out for me.
Very cool OP coin! I always enjoy seeing coins that fuse 2 seemingly distinct cultures. No culture exists in a vacuum, and often the most...
Hi Svein, To be completely honest, I don't actually remember sending you that coin :facepalm: I know that I have sent free coins to some other...
If you start at 7 o'clock and read clockwise, with a little imagination you can read "IOVI CONSERVATORI AUGG" and in exergue "ALP" (some of the...
Thank you @Alwin for you comments. 1. I admit that the case is uncertain, and while I see similarity between the S.61 and 63 portraits I do...
Re: An easy way to identify ancients: This reminds me of an answer I once heard to the question of how to properly grade (US) coins. "Grading...
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