Man. Eagles on the turrets. That’s a pretty fantastic detail.
Haven't seen one posted with the Chi-Rho yet. Still need to get its Urbs Roma Chi-Rho match from Arles. [ATTACH]
I just assumed it was the dative singular form since so many reverse legends are in the dative. I thought the -i ending meant that the coin was...
I think it’s my favorite play for these very questions. It clearly trades in the very worst of anti-Semitic stereotypes. And yet it has the...
In The Merchant of Venice, Solanio ridicules Shylock's grief and outrage at discovering that his daughter Jessica has eloped with his ducats and...
Ive taught about 18 plays--about half the Shakespearean corpus--in one form or another. And I will be playing Sir Toby Belch next month in a...
That’s a good analysis of the prose. I wonder if the writing was influenced by a kind of British celebration of the periodic sentence—a building...
The auction catalogue entry has a long discussion of authentication measures drawing upon die studies. I think its concluding rhetoric works a bit...
Well, in the spirit of the OP question about a de rigeur coin, if one is to have a single coin of Elagabalus, doesn’t it have to be him as the...
This would be my approach. Keep it, but take what the market gives you. In other words, if you run across another example in better condition at...
A really interesting series. Victor, you are a dealer too. How do you decide what to collect and what to sell? Is there any systematic approach...
My similar Hadrian sestertius. Your bust type looks a little different, but I can’t really tell. [ATTACH]
I guess ETERNITY for Maxentius ended in 312. [ATTACH]
That is a wonderful find for a batch of uncleaneds for sure. For me, the erosion on the obverse portrait would eliminate the possibility of an EF...
Congrats Claudius. [ATTACH]
That “portrait” reminded me of this graphic reproduced in Wayne Sayles’s book about Byzantine coinage. The portrait of Trajan Decius seems to be...
Victor Clark once gave me a campgate out of the blue that looks as good as the one that’s been slabbed.
Thanks for these posts, folks. @Valentinian's comments confirm my sense that there really wasn't a widespread tradition of religious portraiture...
I hope the Byzantine specialists will pardon this naïve question, but I was reading a bit about Byzantine coinage and specifically the iconoclast...
BIBENDUM. From Catullus’s “Nunc est bibendum.” I think that phrase appears on other wine bottles, but not as a wine name proper. But it might’ve...
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