Halfway between zee ankle and toe rentum is the instep where we find Sybaris. I lack the creativity to make a joke on it. The reverse shows the...
The book arrived today. It is a most generous prize and looks deep enough that I will take months to read it even in a cursory manner. It starts...
For a 'rare' coin, a lot of us seem to have some. I consider them common but it is rare to find them really nice on both sides struck on a decent...
Romancollector said: ↑ Also, I disagree with the idea that there is a "grade" craze being driven by modern collectors. A good part of the 'grade...
How many friend do you have that you recognize and can call by name? Some of us have more (coin) people in that category that have been dead for...
Style is a matter of taste. I like the Alexandrian style. [ATTACH] In all series, there are better dies and lesser dies. New collectors...
Extra credit for that Sabrina hair style. It is less common than the other. Vesta was the other common Julia Domna type from the early period at...
I am less than fully convinced that this is even Caracalla. If I were to be buying a bust of the man, I would prefer one from his post-Geta...
Oddly, my Domitian sestertius and both asses are green. I have always preferred coins worn smoothly to fine with a decent patina to higher grade...
I am all for waiting but stretched a point quite a bit when I paid $150 for this Providentia in 2016. This specimen sold in CNG sale 345 (lot...
My Domitian EPE is in poor shape but I have always been fond of the style. [ATTACH] Similarly appealing in style to me are the Vespasian phi and...
I agree. That is a fine specimen. The type with horse 'ready to roll' also comes in smaller silver and bronze versions. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I bought my first of these in 1963 and thought it was unique for many years. I now have three using three reverse dies and two obverses including...
He was working very fast and there was a big guy with a hammer half way through a swing that would not wait for error correction. In the time it...
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/58518/undercover-art-6-paintings-were-hiding-something Picasso was, however, known to recycle a canvas...
I regret the use of 'Dremel' here unless you can show some magnifications showing rotary tool artifacts. Some of these strike me as more likely...
I agree with JayAg47 on this. While the poster is a big effort, I would like it a lot more if it retained the entire obverse of the coin chosen...
I assume the reverse is two victories flanking a shield but it makes no matter. furryfrog02 covered the question well. Each mint had its own...
When I was in college, my favorite professor advised us to strive to know something about everything and everything about something. I...
I give up.
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