Here is a beat up little bronze from Ascalon, Judea. [ATTACH] Ascalon, Judea AE 3.91g 14mm Turreted head of Tyche right Galley sailing right...
Happy Father's Day! I spent my morning doing the traditional father's day activity of cleaning out the basement and taking stuff to the dump...
Great coins everyone - I really like the coins where the gorgoneion is part of the armour decoration. Here is a hemidrachm from Parion. [ATTACH]...
I think I've shown this one in another thread but here's a year 3 - quite a variation in portrait styles on these, even just the ones from...
Julia Domna is really piling it on here. [ATTACH] Resizing the picture made it a bit blurry so I left the smaller version in. Julia Domna...
Neat coin - I didn't realize this also came in bronze - here is the denarius version (from Ken Dorney! - I hope he doesn't mind me using his...
I think I am tied with TIF at 49. I collected stamps as a young kid and then gave that up to finance dropping a small block V8 into what I recall...
Here is a bee reverse - the bees seem to vary in style, especially the wings. This one doesn't look much like a bee to me (more like a termite)...
Here's another Pannoniae to keep Bing's company. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Trajan Decius c.249-251 AD Antoninianus 3.04g 21mm IMP C M Q TRAIANVS...
Here's one with one of the more unusual reverses: [ATTACH] Seller's pic again - for some reason I can't seem to resize this one. Severus...
I also won one small lot in the Feb 4 Roma auction and received an unprompted e-mail yesterday the same as red_spork 's. Maybe Roma is feeling...
I think this is my smallest greek coin {seller's pics} [ATTACH] Kolophon, Ionia hemiobol late 6th century BC Archaic head of Apollo left;...
Thanks everyone for the help - great info in that video. I have a follow on question related to the way RIC determined their emissions - I am...
At the risk of looking foolish I realized I had formed an idea in my head of what this means but I don't think I have it right. I thought an...
I've seen the reverse on this one variously described as both grasshopper and cicada - I vote cicada! This is one of my favorites as the bug has...
Thanks @Bing - looks much better with a black background. This is one of my favorites as I really like the look of the quadriga. Great write-up...
Here's another - no toning left on this one. Seller's pics as they are better than what I can produce. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Nice coins everyone - I like the style of Helios on these. Here is another hemidrachm - a chip off the bottom of the flan but the magistrates...
I really like these small coins so I'll add another one - this is a coin that I couldn't resist because the goat looked so cool I ignored the poor...
Great coin - here is a close relative. Sellers pic - sorry I don't know how to make it larger. Amazing the die engraver got that much detail on...
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