I began using FilemakerPro in ~2013. The customizable layout was very nice and I also made a database of watched coins. The latter grew...
I also believe it is her hair although there is room for disagreement :). The swept back and then turned up hair is known on other coins....
Nice writeup! The Cloaca Maxima (the Great Sewer of Rome), although crude by modern waste disposal solutions, probably kept Roman citizens from...
They have many many more ready to roll out, otherwise the advertising costs wouldn't make sense. The misleading ad makes me sad.
It's a gorgeous coin no matter how you slice it, Pman, but when you say "the same coin sold for..." it means the same coin you now own, which is...
Looks correct to me! Great find, cool coin!
:wideyed:! Wow, that is a stunner!! It is fantastic in every possible way :). Here's another toned ex BCD Euboian drachm. [IMG] EUBOIA,...
Maybe somewhere along the line the labeling of that bust as Marcus Aurelius rather than Aelius was purposeful. Marcus Aurelius is a much more...
Wow. I'd think any collector of ancient Roman coins looking at that bust would immediately think "that's Aelius". Perhaps in the absence of a...
I couldn't decipher it so I asked Martin Rowe (Coins of the Southern Levant; screen name Arados on FAC). @7Calbrey was also able to read it...
Wow, what a great year and wonderful assortment of coins! You have a discerning eye :).
Well how about that!! I'll make a note about the pedigree :). Thanks for letting me know. It's a gorgeous coin! I think I did pick it up from...
Oh right!! I was looking on Reid Goldsborough's site and forgot it was you who had the extensive workup of these fake diobols :).
Here's a chi-rho without religious significance: [ATTACH] EGYPT. Ptolemy III Euergetes 246-222 BCE AE35, 35.53 gm Obv: head of Zeus Ammon right...
@Ed Snible, can you elaborate on the issues with the coin shown by the OP? It's not a match (obverse or reverse) for the FAC Fakes Gallery coin...
The island of Arados is cute as a button and not much larger! An interesting provincial bought in my first months of collecting and I still love...
Surprise!! :D I lurk all over the forum :) Beautiful coin, @CircCam. It will be interesting to see the TPG grade of this coin. I suspect I...
I need practice at grading US coins since I'm gearing up to sell the remaining dregs of my family's hoard (mainly junk silver... nothing as...
Looks like it was a fun show!
I've not seen this particular uncia before and don't recall seeing a pedum on any other pre-imperial Roman coins (other than some of Vibius...
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