Nice to see this post get another breath of life! Here's my favorite Licinius II -- It overlaps my two favorite collections: "Barbarians &...
Note: Now realizing my headless Sphinx Obol might be a headless Griffin Obol, here's one more (almost) Sphinx.... You can't quite tell unless you...
Nice sphinx & very detailed Kleinbronzemünze! (To use one of my favorite bits of numismatic German.) That's a great 3/4 facing portrait, which was...
The inscription on the obverse that looks like the name "Constantine" is actually ΘƐΟΝ ϹΥΝΚΛΗΤΟΝ = Theon Synkleton = "Divine Senate." *...
Rather than post my Valerians (Shapur did take him & bring him back home to Persia, after all), here's my miniature Persian Achaemenid Quarter...
Very interesting! Error coins usually are. They often reveal something about the process or conditions of coin production that we can't see from...
Greek OWL coins? Many coins have owls, but do you mean the Athens Tetradrachm, like the type below: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Just to...
A good opportunity to share my favorite portrait on any coin at all. I find her endlessly fascinating. I'm convinced this was an actual living...
Four coins of Tiberius come to mind from my collection, 2 or 3 of whose types (or similar) are represented above (including the Tribute Penny)....
I've posted a lot of my Alexandrian repeatedly, but have a few unposted. Or not posted much! Here's a new favorite. Hadrian AE Drachm from...
Sorry for the time-out from the game, but I couldn't resist! Ooh, great Celtic Tetradrachm! I was checking out the awesomely abstract lyre &...
One nice thing about having a Julian II bull from the mint of Antioch is that we have a famous contemporary account of the citizens of Antioch...
If that's a coin, looks like it's been ground down/flattened, then had characters reengraved with a chisel. (Not sure if those are part of any...
Great horse on the shield! That was the first thing I noticed. Also... is it just me... or does the left "Victory" look like it might be holding...
Another favorite Greek silver coin with a facing head... [ATTACH] Larissa AR Drachm (20mm, 5.68g), c. early 4th BCE = BCD Thessaly II 218 =...
Good catch! Yes, the caduceus definitely makes that Hermes w purse. Here's a example of your type with the corrected reverse:...
Wow, oof! This has been a reality check for me! I thought I was cutting back this year, but now that I count, maybe not so much.... My ACSearch...
And, it's a little hard to read, but Nikopolis on the reverse. Appears to be this type: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2843126 Roma...
Thanks for sharing. The story links the Alexander Dekadrachm Hoard (here's a news story) that was dispersed at major auction houses a few years...
A scarce flip-over double strike. The reverse legend can be read on the obverse (back of Apollo's head): [ATTACH] Olympia, Elis AE Half Unit or...
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