If we ever get shows back, you may find that dealers there are people and like auctions, they differ wildly. Behind some tables are some of the...
10. From the mint formerly known as 'Emesa' comes an ordinary COS II dated obverse paired with a reverse showing crossed cornucopia and one barley...
You got lucky. Higher education can be expensive. I used to advise people to buy from coin shows and fixed price dealers but Covid stopped that....
I kept mine loose in my pocket. I had a Mantle but I don't know if it was a rookie. We played a game with the cards where we hit a ball with the...
Sorry, the closest is G Kantharos but the coin shows smaller handles and the top slightly above the handles. I have no idea what a Greek master...
When we photograph coins (or anything else!) we are not recording the object but the light that bounces off and comes in the direction of the...
Perhaps w overestimate the number of people who know or care Rome ever existed. Or do we underestimate the number that worship current...
Coins of that type are frequently seen with cuts and countermarks. Mine is only mine because the seller considered it doubly defective....
That is a particularly nice rendition of the jug. My best is the Alexandria mint equivalent also with a good jug. Why is it that these rarely...
9. Since maridvnvm ventured away from the Easterns we both favor, I'll join and post a Rome mint bronze. The coin is unusual for my collection in...
8. Of my Provincials featuring Septimius, I believe I am most fond of the one I most recently acquired (June 2020) showing Septimius face to face...
This is a style thing. If there is a difference, the Rome ones seem less common but I prefer the wild and wooly Alexandrian style. Broucheion's...
more to catch up: 4. I particularly like Alexandria mint denarii. When I only had two and inquired about this one from the British Museum, they...
I started September as a test to see if I could live without Coin Talk (I have been quite down on it lately!) but it turns out that September was...
I started September as a test to see if I could live without Coin Talk (I have been quite down on it lately!) but your post reminds me of what I...
There are always things that happen that 'define' a generation by making 'members' know what they were doing when it happened. Mine was the...
I have no post reform Maximianus from Lugdunum but this is a a pre-reform antoninianus of Lugdunum for comparison. [ATTACH] My Constantius...
My left facing Claudius II coins: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Can't win them all.
If you just want a die match of any sort, it will be easier to find in a series that used fewer dies than Claudius or any late Roman. The other...
An hour after I stopped trying, I started getting pop ups that said I should be able to post but those were interrupting what I was doing then and...
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