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Nero Antioch tetradrachmas are pretty common. Otho coins are not.
A well deserved encomium.
Reminds me of the coin market, precious metals, and commodity markets of circa late 1970's and early 1980's. Irrational exuberance.
Bacchus was probably drunk when he put it on.
Assign it as a semester project.
Any idea who they were made for originally or maybe what they were made for?
Those people sure knew hoe to make a beautiful coin. I wonder if their ships were as beautiful.
Right you are. It's interesting what one can find when knowing what to look for. Your coin, by the way, has a very pleasing appearance.
Ah, geeze. I have both those coins and missed seeing what they had. Better get back to the optician. Thanks for those, especially the Parthian as...
The other day I saw a coin posted in an article on horses and one of our members, Curtis, put up an absolutely gorgeous coin of Carthage, a...
Yes I can see them, but why so tiny. As for that electrum piece that is one of the most beautiful coins I have ever seen from anybody, ancient to...
Actually, glad to see one on a medieval coin.
Your horses look very happy.
And for good reason. As the denarius lost more and more of its silver content during the second century, so did the tetradrachmas of Alexandria,...
I am glad you posted those coins. For me, what is most interesting is the fabric of the coins, the metallic composition. As you mention there's...
Boy, your looks like a Clysdale.
I found that giving students a rough sense of chronology enabled them better to understand cause and effect. No, Johnny the Mongols did not cause...
Justinian was a ruler with an eye for the future. His codification of the Roman Law was for the ages as was his Hagia Sophia and reincarnation of...
That honey brown and smooth patina can be hard to come by on Byzantine coins.
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