Post all things Pompeian, he said... I never had in my hand any coin with Pompey's portrait, but here is a coin minted in 58 BC by one of Pompey's...
You are right, the Vespasian denarii with a sow have no relation at all with the Jews. This sow was a sacred animal in the Roman tradition (well...
But why is Victoria dancing and wasting all the paper roll in front of the toilet seat?
Is it in Alsace? The city of Dambach and the Schoeneck family have the same coat of arms.
I can read SES:KAROL:MA G:IPERATO', thus I suppose it is Charlemagne facing holding a model cathedral and a globus cruciger, above a coat of arms...
ano dni m & ccccc l x iii : an(n)o d(omi)ni M et CCCCCLXIII : In the year of the Lord 1563. It is 1563. Did you identify the coat of arms?
I think it is precisely the purpose of contemporary art. What is art? Greek and Romans had a definition for fine art like painting or sculpture,...
[ATTACH] Fals of Homs (Syria). Obv. KAΛON in l. field (written vertically and right to left), بحمص ( b-Hmṣ = in Homs) in r. field; bust of...
Bravo ! Congratulations.
Josephus tells us what Pompey did when he took the Temple of Jerusalem with the aim of stopping a civil war among the Jews and restoring order:...
I did not know the typically Byzantine ligature ꙋ was already in use in the early 3rd c. These coins must be one of its earliest attestations.
In case someone gives you a painting by Rothko, Klein, Pollock, Soulages, any of those representatives of mid-20th c. painting (but not Bernard...
When I said collecting Swiss coins must be a boring hobby, I meant Swiss contemporary coins, from the late 19th c. until now. Of course. This...
"No.5" by Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel made its creator a billionaire.
With an old version of Photoshop Elements. There are nice authentic coins in the lot, but also fakes. #23 is a fake fake, a metafake if you like....
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8, 13, 14 and probably also 23 are fakes. The rest seems OK.
The obverse die of your first coin (the one with the Moneta reverse) was probably cut by the same person as the obv. die of my coin.
Maybe you should ask Freeman and Sear? They are mentioned in the pedigree. This is not as if the auctioneer had mentioned no provenance at all,...
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