No, no letters on this one. I have another lead sling bullet (but I forgot where it is in my mess) with Latin inscriptions: one one side L.XII or...
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[ATTACH] Lead sling bullet. 37 x 21 x 14 mm, 48.49 g. On one side is a winged thunderbolt, the other side is blank. These lead slingshot...
[ATTACH] AE3 of Julian Caesar (355-361), Alexandria mint (RIC VIII Alexandria 88) [ATTACH] Double majorina (?) or AE1 of Julian Augustus...
[ATTACH] On this as the portrait is unfortunately corroded, but there is music on the reverse! But what kind of music? Today, music performed at...
There were no strict rules for Roman numerals. [ATTACH] On this gravestone of a centurion who died at the battle of Teutoburg against the...
There has been for a long time in a drawer a small tetrobol of Arados I always suspected to be a forgery. [ATTACH] Arados, AR tetrobol, 3.42 g...
Of couse :-) I agree with you. This "Francia" wearing a Phrygian cap is just a coïncidence. I just find this irony...
Nice specimen of the classical owl with levantine test-cuts. Is the Aramaic letter engraved in the obv. die or is it a lightly struck countermark?...
Nice owl, but I'm not convinced there is an Aramaic letter on the owl's leg. The dies are very worn, there are scratches on Athena's nose and eye,...
[ATTACH] Has anybody ever seen such a minute coin? AE 9mm, 0.71 g. The portrait on obverse looks a little like Antoninus Pius. it is probably a...
"Saloninus Antoninianus that I may not have seen before?" mmh... interesting post, interesting coin (from a period I find especially interesting)....
[ATTACH] Constantius I Caesar (293-305), follis Lugdunum mint Next : Tetrarchic follis with full silvering
The problem with collecting paintings, statues, etc. is that you need a lot of room to properly display your collection. Contemporary art, in...
I think the nr3 is an Ottoman silver akçe of Mahmud II in 1810-1811. Obv. : tughra Rev. : "3. Minted in Constantinople. [12]23"
Because it is her profile, I think...
[ATTACH] My 2 cents: this nice Septimius Severus portrait on a 195 AD sestertius... The rev. legend reads DIVI · M · PII · F · P M TR P III COS...
Of course Joan of Arc is a History Superstar, like Alexander the Great or Christopher Columbus. But, if she played a crucial role in the French...
Very nice ! and good style
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