I waited a long time to buy a L HOSTILIVS SASERNA. The coin is often poorly struck, off center or expensive. I found one that has a bit of wear,...
You can probably guess that the left quadrans was minted later than the right one. both are anonymous with symbols: elephant and staff. [ATTACH]...
I enjoy watching live coin auctions. Today I had two coins on my watch list. Unfortunately they were 200 lots, or over an hour, apart in the...
I read an interesting book recently: Rome vs Carthage; The War at Sea by Christa Steinby. The book covers an interesting time in Republican Rome...
My display at The 62nd HOUSTON MONEY SHOW PRE-COIN ROMAN MONEY or Roman "money" from 1000 to 390 BC, or how did Rome pay their soldiers at Veii in...
I normally do not buy duplicates, but this one was too hard to pass. I bought it in an on line auction. I told myself I would bid once and if...
Today's mail brought an early example of a Roman coin. According to Crawford this coin is part of the series dated 280 to 276 BC. It is the first...
I hope you received what you wanted this year. Post your treasures. I was blessed with a book. (My wife was not aware she was buying it for me.)...
I just bought a weight that was advertised as Roman. I think that is a good guess, but it looks like it could be from a lot of places. I liked the...
I collect money used by Romans during their republic from 1000 to 30 BC. Historians would differ on the start and end dates, but they are good...
I bought an interesting coin in a recent auction. It is not a common coin, but that is not unusual for small denomination RR bronzes. An added...
My son sent me some coin pics of coins sent to the coin shop where he works. I think they look too grainy. Taken as a group I guessed cast fakes...
I picked up an interesting Vespasian bronze coin at the Houston Fall coin show yesterday. There is still time to make a trip to the show today,...
Most scale weights found in antique markets are dated by looks only. They are not attributed to a dig site. They are not easy to recognize when...
I picked up a small weight today on an auction pre-bid. It was not as nice a surprise as @panzerman 's Aureus of Empress Herennia Etruscilla...
Has anyone here used - http://numismatica-classica.lamoneta.it/moneta/R-G117/1 I have looked at pics of coins I want to buy on the site, but...
[ATTACH] I am eagerly waiting for this coin from the recent Kunker Auction. Since I posted a pic of the coin, I figured why not do a write-up as...
My first Caligula is a Roman Provincial bronze. Caligula, 37-41 AD; Phrygia Aezani - Zeus reverse. [ATTACH] Roman Provincial bronze - Caligula,...
[ATTACH] I picked up an interesting piece that is a bit outside of my collecting area this week. I do not have the coin yet, so I am posting the...
Recently I was interested in two lots offered only a couple of days apart. The one I wanted most was a Roman steelyard scale, see it below. I also...
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