The IVPPITER CVSTOS one is nice, all inscriptions are readable, the style is very good, and the price tag is relatively affordable (for a denarius...
The Vienna skyphos by the "Brygos painter" is a true masterpiece for me. It represents the episode in Ilias book 24 l.475 ff. when Priamos...
Wonderful coin ! From all the other examples you posted for comparisons, I notice that the rev. legend is very often blundered, and this from the...
Sincerely, I am afraid this is a modern reproduction. I have never seen such a perfectly circular flan for a Roman denarius. It is machine made......
[ATTACH] Alexander the great AR Tetradrachm, Tyre mint, Tyre. Dated RY 25 of Azemilkos (325-324 BC), Price (Ake) 3262. As found ! rev.: ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ...
In the 70s I have been visiting natural wildlife reserves in Kenya and Tanzania. In a lodge in the wild I bought myself as a souvenir an old spear...
[ATTACH] Nabataean half-unit (?) of Rabbel II (AD 71-106), AE 15 mm Obv.: Joined heads of Rabbel, laureate, and Gamilat his wife Rev.: ربعل /...
[ATTACH] On this sestertius all legends are almost entirely rubbed-off (but I like it for his semi-precious stone patina). It's IMP VIII and not...
[ATTACH] Marcus Aurelius - sestertius (174/5) Obv.: M ANTONINVS AVG GERM TR P XXIX , laureate bust r. Rev.: LIBERALITAS AVG VI IMP VII COS III /...
... and a Z [ATTACH] Alexander II Zabinas (125-122 BC)...
Hey ! You're going too fast!... I had a nice Y to post Y for Yezdegard I [ATTACH] Yezdegard I (399-420) - AR drahm, Bishapur (near Qazerun,...
These symbols on Sasanian coins and reliefs are an interesting question. Like you said, the two-legged ankh symbol (as the one on your coin) is...
are you certain this symbol on a Vahram V bronze coin is a schematic Faravahar? It could be a Persian heraldic symbol attested as early as the...
Are you sure you can read "FL DELMA-TIVS NOB C"?
Vologases III (110-147 AD), dirham, Ecbatana mint (Hamadan, Iran). [ATTACH]
[ATTACH] Augustus - as Obv.: CAESAR AV[G. PONT. MAX. T]RIBVNIC. POTEST., bare head right. Rev.: L. SVRDINVS [III VIR] A.A.A.F.F. around large SC....
[ATTACH] Laodicea (Lattaqieh, Syria) - Antoninus Pius, AE 24 mm Obv.: Illegible legend mostly out of flan , laureate bust of Antoninus Pius right...
U for Unpublished [ATTACH] AE 26 mm, 7.40 g Obv.: IMP CAES DOMITIANVS AVG PM, counter-clockwise! laureate head right Rev.: eagle on globe, S C....
[ATTACH] T for Trajan...
[ATTACH] Tarsus, Severus Alexander. AE 38 mm, 27.84 g. Next : a very small Roman provincial
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