Nice writeup! Gunning for your first Featured post, are you? ;) It's got my vote. In fact, I just "reported" you (in a good way). PS- the...
Congrats. I would of course have been clueless about the rarity of the variety. I'm glad there are specialist folk like you out there, though.
January was an active month for me, since I had a little bit of "mad money" from the sale of my love token collection. I added five to the...
All right. "Royal ladies" seems to be slowing down. I'll wrap that theme up with Queen Mary, here (shown alongside William III on this 1693...
Eudoxia [IMG]
This. I've owned two real ones, neither of the caliber of the one @Mike Margolis posted. [IMG] [IMG]
Fake. Crude Chinese counterfeits, as mentioned. See this website for more information.
Faustina senior, sestertius. [IMG]
Maria Theresia on a 1744 Hungarian coin. [IMG]
Oh, BTW, Ancient Forum peeps: I finally joined what seems to be a rather large club I've heard y'all mention. During the recent CNG auction, I...
Lucilla. [ATTACH]
Here. How about a sestertius of Roman empress Otacilia Severa: [IMG]
Still on the Queen Victoria theme, eh? Fine by me! Nice Straits 20c, @coin_nut. The perfect grey color on it more than compensates for a few...
I too have always liked the Monticello reverse on those old $2s but have seldom seen them.
To answer that with the correct Monty Python quote would run afoul of CoinTalk rules. ;)
That's an impressive Trajan sestertius! Without the porosity, I'm sure that would have been a frightfully expensive coin. Probably still wasn't...
Aside from concurring that the portrait indeed looks like Hadrian, I have nothing intelligent to add*, so I'll mention that I quite like your...
Thanks, LC. Makes me feel a tad better. LOL @ "river parasite" comment. I'm sure there was no shortage of that sort of thing in medieval...
Thank you! I suspected as much (that those were fantasies) but couldn't get anyone to confirm that for me, nor did I have much success in my...
I knew the quest for a 1588 had to be an Armada thing. :) I want a 1565, just because of my 1965 birthyear.
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