If you're going to get one of the Philip Staters, get one from the Magnesia mint! They had some beautiful dies. This reverse is 100% perfect. I...
It’s actually not too complicated once you know what you’re looking at. It’s just a “social network diagram” (I happen to be familiar with them as...
Note: My "Provenance Glossary" entry for R.L. Grover (1910-1998) excerpted at the very end of comment... (That's a great NF thread!!) Aha -- we...
These are really cool -- it would be great to have the pots, too. Probably all the same types all the way through. Sometimes they can become...
Also, here's one of mine I IDed using that site [IMG] [IMG]
Not sure. There are a bunch with Nun & Ayin above on this list:...
Here's the site you want -- you'll have to navigate to the correct type. Very useful:...
Lovely little coin! Noble Numismatics is one of my favorite secret weapons -- but now you've let the cat out of the bag... :banghead::mad: I've...
It's more than just pareidolia. There are various design features in Celtic art that have been well known to generations of scholars (both of...
I will keep an eye out -- I feel like I see copies of III pretty regularly. I've got a duplicate of I, which is usually the harder one to find and...
Did anyone else participate in Kuenker's auction of the Alois Wenninger Library? Or any other recent book purchases to share? Or books you've...
Nice elephant coins! I've got a couple of these and agree that they are very underrated coins. Both of the coins below were extremely affordable....
Wait, are you saying that's the same coin, before and after? Either I'm misunderstanding or I think there's been some kind of mix-up (i.e., those...
There are a few things wrong with this coin, as previous comments have pointed out, the clearest being the trident. This is, in fact, a...
I'd LOVE to have a Basiliscus Solidus, very cool!! Yup, definitely an obverse die-match. (The rev. looks like the same engraver.) They always...
Oh, that would be really cool, @Homer2 ! I don't recall seeing them on RIC coinage (I notice them all the time on Republican and, of course,...
Interesting coin and writeup! Was that the Antonine Plague? (Which ultimately killed Lucius Verus in 169 -- and possibly Marcus Aurelius in 180?)...
Well, after years of waiting, two in a month: Sear Byzantine Coins and Their Values "plate coins," both from Byzantine Sicily, of types I was...
I would definitely ask a jeweler/goldsmith to do it. Good ones will have steady hands like a surgeon & are used to working on small objects...
Yes, no question, that's Severus Alexander. (Note: you can read part of his name on the obverse legend "ALE" to the left of the head.)...
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