I don't post often in this forum, but thought it was the right place to post a new Art Deco medal I just bought, by Paul-Marcel Dammann:...
After successfully bidding on four lots in the recent Roma Numismatics auction, for a total price exceeding £2,000, I paid Roma the stated DHL...
I said a while back that if I ever actually spent the amount of money necessary to buy an aureus in nice condition, given the number of fake...
By pure coincidence (given @Roman Collector's new thread this morning about whether a marble head in the Archaeological Museum of Nikopolis is...
This list combines the top 8 RR's I had already selected, plus the top 4 vote-getters in the poll I put up a while back to choose the final 2 (see...
Since I'm already pretty much decided on 8 coins to include in my Roman Republican Top 10 list, here are the candidates for the last two open...
I'm too indecisive to narrow the list down to 10, so I've decided to post 15, in chronological order to the extent that's possible. Of course the...
I decided a while ago that there's no way I could limit myself to one Top 10 list. Now I realize that I'll need three: this one, Roman Provincial...
I am not ready yet to start thinking about a Top 10 Roman Republican coins list, or whether I'll even be able to narrow things down that much. I...
I've bought half a dozen Roman Alexandrian coins over the last few months, but decided to wait until the last one arrived to mention them, so I...
I've wanted an Argenteus depicting the four tetrarchs sacrificing for a long time, and finally decided to buy one after losing out badly on the...
As I've mentioned, I've been looking for a couple of years for a nice example of one of the denarius types with portraits of Antoninus Pius as...
I won this coin in the recently-completed Nomos Obolos 20 auction, and it arrived today from Switzerland. It's a type I've long admired and...
I'm still missing plenty from the first century (never mind from later centuries), but I was pleased to add these two recently. Messalina [I...
The coin I purchased at the Harlan J. Berk Buy or Bid Sale #217 arrived today, and I'm very happy with it. The dealer's photo definitely doesn't...
Although I have several coins of Augustus -- which themselves tend to be quite expensive -- I have never, until now, bought one of his coins from...
The new Harlan J. Berk buy or bid sale launched earlier this evening, with 500 or so ancient coins. See...
Last December, I posted my example of one of the only two trigas ever depicted on Roman Republican coinage, issued by C. Naevius Balbus in 79 BCE...
I have finally accepted that I'm probably never going to get further in writing up these three coins -- all purchased at least a few months ago --...
I should note at the outset that I still haven't done write-ups for Nos. 58-60, even though I bought them all several months ago. One reason is...
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