The question here is whether the five volunteers would select a coin that was obviously theirs or if they would be deceitful and pick something...
For those who may have missed the point: The Syrian mints rarely spelled out MONETA preferring MONET. They used several spacings at the end of...
I have nothing to add. My only Orodes II is Susa mint and seems relatively good silver (75%?). I keep telling myself that I will study the...
I'll join in the Curtisimo guessing group because this is the second coin and that is when I predict that he would put in his entry. That is not...
I don't collect this period with any intensity but can only add that there is a higher than usual number from the period with a secret inside....
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/robert-n-dennis-collection-of-stereoscopic-views#/?tab=about I do not know if the NYC library...
Underwood and Underwood that made the rrdenarius card was one of the two big stereoview companies that survived into the 20th century. The other...
Yes and like Corinth the proper abbreviation for this name is Q. ;)
This should have been the ΛI from that series but the code confused the legend cutter who put an A where he should have placed the lambda....
That would seem a question worthy of an answer.
One of my other collections includes some of these Francis Frith (signed in lower left corner) strereoviews from his trip to Egypt in the 1850's....
Postumus also issued a Mars with a cloak and dated legend but the 'no pants' rule applies so we know this is the god. [ATTACH]
Groundrule: If there are no pants, the coin is Mars. Virtus was always shown with her bottom covered although one breast is usually exposed. In...
There are several things that can make a FH special in my opinion. I am particularly fond of the mints that you don't see every day. Amiens...
Do you have any? How many here have seen one? Wikipedia shows one but I have never seen one.
I wish there were a way of cataloging coins that made it easier to recognize overlaps better than either strict adherence to time or place. I...
I bought that coin in 1998 from a dealer named Reid but have no recollection of that dealer or the circumstances. That probably means it came out...
While I agree with the comments above it does require one to accept the possibility of some ancient things being later than other medieval ones....
A point: Collectors and scholars tend to study what they consider the 'best' so it is easier to find references on die variations of big silver...
Julia Domna "Laodicea" mint [ATTACH] Next: Fecunditas
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