Back to normal, after my venture far afield to a Roman Provincial of Caesarea! Although these may be my last purchases of Roman Republican coins...
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Not everything I've bought in the last few months is either a Roman Republican coin or a Roman Provincial from Alexandria -- here's a Roman...
This coin arrived today from Sweden (I bought it from @Michael Stolt), and I'm very happy with it. The one thing about it that makes me curious...
I was recently contacted by Bradley J. Bowlin of Eukratides Ancient Numismatics, the dealer from whom I bought my Cn. Plancius Republican denarius...
I bought this coin (which arrived today), even though its surfaces, especially in the fields, are quite rough and have many small scratches. I...
This is a follow-up to my thread a while ago about my first 30 Roman Republican coins. (No. 31 was the Manius Aquillius denarius, Crawford 401/1,...
The results of the most recent Frank Robinson auction went online this morning. I won three lots. Here are Frank's photos of them; I haven't yet...
I was very pleased today to receive (finally) a package containing two ancient coins I purchased from a Canadian dealer in late July. The package...
I have only a small number of Roman coins with geographic personifications, but a new one arrived today: a Septimius Severus denarius showing the...
I know that mine is a very small collection of Roman Republican coins compared to what many of you have, so it may seem silly of me even to...
An interesting column on women in numismatics, entitled "NUMISMANELS: WHY ARE THERE STILL ALMOST ALL-MALE EVENTS HAPPENING IN NUMISMATICS?," by...
I have never bought a slabbed coin, and think it's quite unlikely that I ever would. This coin, however, came with the information that it had...
This is a strange situation -- one I've never faced before -- and will take a while to explain. So please excuse the great length of this post. I...
Because of the frustrating limitations on what one can find with "free" searches on both acsearch and Coin Archives -- not only the inability to...
I haven't seen anyone else post this, so I thought I would do so. It includes summaries of each person's oral testimony, and links to the written...
This poor fellow looks like he could use a few hamburgers. Or could have been Ray Bolger's understudy in The Wizard of Oz. Trajan AR Denarius,...
Melqart, also spelled Melkart (meaning "King of the City" in Phoenician) was the tutelary or patron god of the Phoenician city of Tyre. Temples...
Not even a horse! I know nothing about boats -- it's probably been 15 years since I've even set foot on one (a whale watching trip off Cape Cod)...
When people describe ancient coins depicting "panthers," I suspect that they don't think very much about the fact that the panther is not a...
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