Wow. If that’s unofficial, the Roman mint master in Trier needs to give that young barbarian a seat at the die engraver’s table.
A lovely set, Sulla. But my OCD doesn’t like that Vitellius before Otho. But what are we talking about, really? A few weeks or months? Here’s...
Marcus Ambivulus? Does that mean he couldn’t make up his mind?
Happy birthday Nick. Take a day off all the KOINON editing and relax!
It appears just fine to the eye. And I wouldn’t worry with anything from Forum.
I find the coin with the scrape has the greater eye appeal overall.
Thanks Warren. I’m sorry to be so thick about this, but I take it that none of these coinage reforms was connected to the plague experience itself?
Thanks Al. So is there anything distinctive about these post-plague coins, or is the XIII simply significant for those who know their Byzantine...
For those of us not familiar with Byzantine coinage, what’s the significance of year 13?
Significant work has been done on whether medieval scribes could be illiterate. I think there's good evidence that scribes indeed might not have...
[ATTACH] So I live in Jackson Tennessee, about 80 miles East of Memphis. It's the hometown of Carl Perkins and is said to be, with some...
That’s a thoughtful quantifying of a lot of the emotional elements going into auctions.
Better late than never. [ATTACH]
One of my favorite SNL skits: [MEDIA]
Very cool. Is there a site where you can upload photos and have that AI treatment done for it?
Ok, just joking. Here's one. Time of Basil II/Constantine VIII 976-1025 A.D. Byzantine Class 2 anonymous AE follis [ATTACH]
Still working on this one. Almost finished. I think it's coming along nicely. [ATTACH]
I’m going to feel a lot less guilty about keeping their nice hardback catalogs now.
Congrats on an Otho aureus. I think you made a good call to acquire it when you did. Here are my Four Emperors in more modest medal: [ATTACH]
Well, that Lucilla has full legends. And at 34 mm, It is an impressive hunk of bronze. I would like to have had more details in the portrait, but...
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