Very well done and enjoyable write up with stellar coin examples ta boot! Thanks RC! My contribution and only Ceres is on this well worn Titi:...
Funny you'd mention that. I found out the hard way that shipping books across the Atlantic is EXPENSIVE. In the same Auction that I won the beauty...
Thanks so much everyone! And double thanks to @DonnaML and @Kavax!!! As you can tell I'm very new to the type but learning:bookworm:
Of all days for this to arrive (I did win it 3 weeks ago) it landed right on my porch this morning, the morning of my 40th Birthday! [ATTACH]...
Yowza!!! Some rare beauties right here! And that Marciana portrait is smoking! Reminds me of one of my early Empress purchases of Sabina, but much...
Foxy Crispina:woot: And coingrats on the new (slightly used) Plautilla :cigar: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Plotina and Marcian are not very easy to come by. Nor were they massively impactful to history. But possibly the greatest of all the Roman...
Both cool and interesting coins from a place I've never heard of! Though, I've a few coins from Pisidia, this one is by far my favorite: [ATTACH]...
Glad you were able to get him out of his shell. Very nice score! Here's my little guy: [ATTACH]
Fun coin from a crazy time for the republic! [ATTACH]
A beauty and in silver ta boot!:woot: Here he is with another appearance of the Dioscuri in bronze: [ATTACH] Eukratides (171-145 BC), Bronze...
There's just something bad ace about a helmeted hero that gives a unique feel for them as they are rearing and ready to go do what they do best,...
Calling Leonard Nimoy. Both the obverse and reverse style are strange on this little quarter unit MSC Poliorketes. I'd never seen a Macedonian...
Talk about a coin to cause salivation:wideyed: The portrait almost feels personal. The reverse is a beauty. And that toning:cigar: COINGRATS!...
First ancient coins I purchased at a brick and mortar (and possibly the last now that I think about it) were Te-tricky: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [MEDIA]
Those British Museum AV are breathtaking! Sorry Fausty, my peacock isn't so foxy nor Fausty: [ATTACH] Julia Mamaea, Augusta, 222-235, Denarius...
Nice portrait and patina! I believe I have all the Julio- Claudians, with a provincial Britannicus, save Nero Claudius Drusus. He's a slippery...
I really appreciate the help and am probably missing something, but the only hit I got on CPE-B44 was:...
I must conquer... that is concur;) with JT, whatever you paid, it was the right choice. I won't even get started about the stunning portrait. That...
[IMG] So many questions about his death: Why would such a young healthy (he was in the prime of his life at 32!) guy die? Was it really from...
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