Yet, from both images emanates a determined design to continually strive to succeed. That Quadrigatus is a mighty fine looking coin.
Your Hadrian piece certainly conveys the "We in Rome know what we are doing" image. Usually I am not too impressed with the Alexandrine tetras but...
I love your Rhodian piece. It would enlighten anyone's day.
It's a very dark black. I have to use a strong LED lamp to get it to reveal its intricacies and, as you can see, the reverse was not a good...
Thanks. When I gaze on coins like this I get lost in reverential reverie.
I think most readers and posters here like to study the times of the Classical World. We are attracted to this time period for many reasons. We...
A further point. I hesitate to judge the color of a coin using digital images which may not be exactly what the color is so I could be dead wrong...
I am no expert in this area but I do know it is awful difficult to determine a coin's authenticity from a photo. Too much else needs to be...
OK. we'll consider yours to be "provisional" junk.
Yes, these clearly meet status as brother-in-law gifts
I don't know that your coin qualifies as "junk". Looks pretty decent to me, but as the OP of this thread I'll allow it to remain in contention.
You might be right. I thought that protrusion was a beard but maybe it is his jutting jaw, in which case, maybe that's Titus on the other side...
These three coins do not quite compare with my avatar in beauty but they were a whole lot less expensive. As a matter of fact, never in my more...
I totally understand.
Now that's an extraordinary precious coin.
Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue, and a silver sixpence in her shoe.
Most of us who have collected over a period of time, probably, have one coin that is just extra special. It may be because it is valuable, maybe a...
Try this one.[ATTACH] By the way, do I detect some small print within V of the countermark? With daylight tomorrow I'll try for a better picture.
There is a coin show for my county every second Sunday of the month that takes place in the local Masonic Lodge. Maybe I should just show it to them?
Thanks. That was a nice reply. I had no idea that Masonic counterstamps were that common. In ancient coins there is considerable interest in the...
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