I am confident that I can share the absolute worst Germanicus in this thread - it came in an eBay lot, cost about a dollar, and unlike all the...
Nice peacocks, RC. Here's my only peacock walking on a sceptre - [ATTACH] Faustina I Denarius (c. 150 A.D.) Rome Mint DIVA FAVSTINA, draped...
Just in the mail a couple days ago...whenever one of these little AEs for Alexander come up cheap, I tend to succumb. A snack! This one actually...
Nice catch...I wondered why those dropped off my watch list as sold! :jawdrop: They seem to be jewelry specialists, but for over a year now they...
I hope it doesn't have to be a mammal! Here is a Murex - a snail - or at least its shell. Tyrian purple is extracted from these guys, and it...
Thank you! This has been driving me crazy trying to figure it out - I got stuck on this incorrect Aeneas interpretation and it brought me to a...
I've been trying to figure this out and failing - not sure what it weighs, but it is 20 mm or so. The three pellets led me to believe it is a...
Here's Nero with his face rudely obliterated by a Galba countermark: [ATTACH] Nero / Galba Æ As (63 A.D.; c/m 69 A.D.) NERO...
At $6.67 this qualifies as a bargain, I suppose, but you sure don't get much Jupiter for that price: [ATTACH] Domitian Æ Sestertius...
Well I like that one too! This sort of damage has never bothered me on world coins. I like holes too - mostly because it brings coins...
Welcome to CT. I think your collecting plans sound terrific. :) Since you are Dutch, one of my favorite "interwar coins" are big Dutch 2.5...
I like it. Yeah, it may've been cleaned. But I don't see nasty harsh hairlines. This is the kind of crown I really like. Now here's a truly...
Great coins in this thread. Artemis sometimes shows up in a countermark, as with these two dazzlers from Laodicea ad Mare, host coins struck...
That OP is a real stunner. Nice pick up @Old World Coins I have a couple of these (SB 882), but neither one is as nice as yours: [ATTACH]...
Here is a Marcianopolis eagle issued for Geta; the portrait is quite "provincial" on this one: [ATTACH] Geta Assarion Æ 16 (198-209 A.D.)...
I should've read your OP closer! Oops.:shame: And congratulations - it's a nice one.
Nice one, @ancient coin hunter - @Mat posted one like the OP a while back: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/nobile-snack.366658/#post-4864525...
Very informative write up, with some great coins. Now for something completely different, as they used to say on Monty Python. A while back I...
Terrific write-up and coins, RC. There are some coins in my collection that are so horrible, I figure there'd never be a reason to inflict them...
The coin isn't "good" in this case, but Tiberius is shown being good - helping out Sardes after an earthquake: [ATTACH] Tiberius & Livia...
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