My word. Your discarded coins would be the centerpiece in most people’s collections, including mine. This may be a stupid question, but is the...
Here’s a good thread on this coin type, illustrating the various hairstyles for Helena....
Part of my education was taking a look at what my target coin tended to retail for on VCoins in various grades. If you typed in “Caesar elephant...
You know, there’s so much room in the mintmark area, I wonder if it’s one of these scarce issues from Lugdunum, with captives in the exergue....
@Victor_Clark Could probably eyeball that Constantine bronze and tell you the mint. It seems like so many of them come from Siscia.
I love the detailed helmets on those Constantine VLPP issues.
A helpful write-up. Mine, but not a VICTORIA NAVALIS but a VICTORIA AVGVST, with retrograde obverse letters. Similar reverse iconography. [ATTACH]
ROMA: “... the gold is super shiny and the daggers are super stabby...” ME: “Oh, very well then. I shall bid. Jeeves, bring me my briefcases full...
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It's a Gallienus antoninianus. Someone will be along soon with a better I.D. It may not be fully identifiable without a better reverse image....
I’ve been hammered for a lot less.
Most wonderful! Here's my JC. I'll trade ya even, @AncientJoe. Aw heck, I'll throw in a pack of smokes. And I don't even smoke. [ATTACH]
Well, major thread hijack ahead...I shall be playing this very tune Monday night at a gig. I am the only medievalist Ph.D. rock band front man...
Yes. And Octavia is more than reminded of Marcellus. Vergil actually inserts the pre-born soul of Marcellus into Book 6 of the Aeneid, as Anchises...
What a great example. And generous flan.
Finally got around to photographing this coin. It’s tough to photograph. It still retains a good bit of silvering, which means that so much...
“How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.” I love those front-facing obverse busts. I need to snag...
Were those three coins worth a total of $30? No. If those three coins become an avenue through which you develop an interest, reqd around a...
It’s nice to process size and scale with a shot like this. When I first started collecting, I could not visualize millimeters. An AE4 looked as...
yes. I just snapped this photo a moment ago and was surprised that I hadn’t properly photographed it yet. You’ll have to wait until tomorrow...
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