I don't think I have ever see this many quincunxes in one place in my whole life. how did you ever acquire the interest in these coins?
Oh, fui. I just noticed that I wrote Mercury instead of Hercules which is, of course the correct demi-god.
Nice way to classify them.
Great selection of uncommon denominations, especially the quincunx. Thanks for posting that one.
Most of us who collect in the area of ancients wind up with coins that are usually of the most common denominations. If we collect Greek we have a...
I can't figure out why anybody would want to make copies of coins whose intrinsic value was so small. it would be like counterfeiting nickels.
That Claudius As looks pretty good for a British copy. I think it is just a well worn and well circulated official strike.
Two different rail transit systems (NJ Transit and PATCO) in NJ would (and still may) spit out these coins, or SBA dollar coins in change, when...
Yes, and I wonder if words taken from French that are themselves based on Latin would be considered as Latin derived or French derived or would...
Although a dictionary would reveal that about 60% of words in an English language dictionary derive from a classical language our most common...
Avarice in the acquisition numismatic coinage is no vice, but rather a benediction to posterity.
Yes, but the Anglisc version is infinitely more euphonic, as anyone who watches Masterpiece Theater will attest.
Thanks for the article. I must tell you, however that the philosophy of Stoicism, at least as first proposed by Zeno, has always had a tendency to...
Your coin is in much better condition than they are usually found in.
That is a very pleasing coin. I would not be too quick to turn it in for something better.
Unlike some other emperors Gallienus earned that trophy. He walked the walk.
I spent seven years in a Roman Catholic seminary, actually a monastery, of a religious order. This was before the Vatican II council that saw the...
Aut, weni, widi, wiki.
And I have to learn not to be so pedantic.
OK, you asked for it. Another lesson. First the term is antEpenult, not antIpenult, meaning BEFORE the penult, not, against the penult. Secondly...
Separate names with a comma.
