I think one of the reasons for an apparent declining interest in coin collecting is that at one time one could build up an interesting, and...
Normally I would not reply to a posting put up more than two years ago but when I saw that someone had posted a dichalcon of Aquilia Severa, wife...
Good point. The allies of Sparta in the Peloponnesian War would not mind doing a facelift on Athena. I would like to think it was captured and...
For me the granulation of the surfaces makes me hesitant to accept them as genuine.
New one for me. I always thought of the Empress Theodora as the consort and spouse of Justinian in the Sixth Century AD.
To me, although I claim no expertise in this sort of authenticating from simply a photographic image, it looks like it was struck by a machine...
You guys do realize that if this works, if the storm goes elsewhere, appealing to the old gods for aid may result in a resurgence of Paganism...
I think we need to offer a hecatomb to Zephyrus.
I notice that many of the texts you cited came from Stanford where one of my daughters teaches. If you attended Berkeley (where another daughter...
I spent my career in teaching history and was always dismayed by the lack of information, documentation and artifacts, compared to the Classical...
Yes, I realize that this one was far too late to be copied by the region of Achaia.
You are exactly right. Thanks. Good eye.
I see your point though I wonder if it might be one of the Crusader duchies in Greece copies which vary considerably from the Venetian originals...
I was looking at my Brutus denarius of circa 54 BC, the one where Marcus Junius Brutus as moneyer in 54 BC chose to put two of his ancestors on...
First I apologize for the poor images. I had to take them with the coin inside the holder with my cell phone and in poor light. I am not asking...
How can you tell from these images?
Do they have coin collectors on the planet of the apes?
If I saw it at a show, could heft and feel the coin in hand, and could get it for about $70-80 I'd probably buy it, if I knew the seller and would...
Looks like mine. Displaying coins like this puts me in mind of a gentleman in a smoking jacket in a heavily paneled library of classical texts,...
I have been collecting coins since I was a kid and that was 1957. I bought my first ancient in the spring of 1961. Whenever possible I like to...
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