Nice coins- with much clearer details than my example below. I recently had "Helios" on my mind, posting a comparison of his famous statue, the...
Thanks for the information on Mysia, @Bing! Nice coins posted. Great toning on @shanxi's tetrobol and @Alegandron's tetradrachm. The radiating...
This is my oldest "king coin:" [ATTACH] Great Kings of Persia. Xerxes II or Darios II. AR Siglos. 485-420 BC. Persian king kneeling-running...
It's interesting to see all of these Nerva examples. Very nice coin to start the thread, @Marsman! Here's a denarius: [ATTACH] Nerva (96-98...
[ATTACH] Thrace. Apollonia Pontica 450-350 BC. Drachm. Facing gorgoneion / Upright anchor; A to left, crayfish to right. 15 mm. 2.84 g. Here's...
Thanks for the very informative write-up, @Al Kowsky! [ATTACH] Phoenicia, Tyre AR Shekel. Dated CY 113 = 14/13 BC. Laureate head of Melkart...
Hip, Hip, Hip, and a Hooray- Three Victorias (Roman) and an Earlier Nike (Greek): [ATTACH] Time of Claudius-Nero. Philippi, Macedonia. Circa AD...
@furryfrog02, here are a couple of examples of those Olbian dolphins that you mentioned. The residents of Olbia presumably enjoyed watching them...
[ATTACH] Otho, 69. Denarius (Silver, 18 mm, 2.99 g, 6 h), Rome. IMP M OTHO CAESAR AVG TR P Bare head of Otho to right. Rev. VICTORIA OTHONIS...
@Orielensis, I enjoyed seeing your photos from atop Masada. I also visited the site last year. Nice re-telling of the "historical fall," @kevin...
Here's another coin of mine from Year 3 that better shows the decorative lid on the amphora: [ATTACH]
Here are prutot from Year 2 and Year 3 of the Jewish War. (Both of them need to be rephotographed.) They are very similar in design, but note...
And here's a hemidrachm, but not of Alexander: [ATTACH] MYSIA, Parion, 4thcentury BC, silver hemidrachm of 13 mm, 2.14 g. Gorgoneion / IIA-PI,...
[ATTACH] Alexander III 'the Great' AR Tetradrachm. Tarsos, circa 327-323 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress / ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ,...
Thanks for sharing the pic of your personal inspection of Trajan's road last fall, @Ancient Aussie! Here's a denarius with Abundantia on the...
Nice acquisition with a fine portrait, @DonnaML! I believe my Galba's reverse center is "dotless;" however, Doug's post had me closely examining...
Good article on the LONG history of the tripod, @Roman Collector! Nice examples of tripods and snakes posted in this thread. Here are four...
These reverses show Minerva and Athena, respectively, with round shields at rest: [ATTACH] Denarius. Laureate head of Domitian right /...
Interesting thread, @Roman Collector. Here's a coin that was issued to commemorate Agrippa's re-founding of Caesarea Paneas as Neronias, named...
My heaviest coin, this 36 mm countermarked sestertius of Tiberius, weighs in at just under 25 g (24.88). [ATTACH]
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