My first turtle. Please, no circumcision jokes. It wouldn't be fair to him. He's all alone. I said he was my first. Maybe you could post...
Fun coin! Looks a lot line this one to me:...
Thanks so much RC! I'm certainly out of my depth in this area, but do love coins of the empresses. I had no idea that it was the earliest obverse...
Coingrats! Wonderful coin and write up. All about that Diadochi collecting life: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Lysimachos Kings of Thrace. Uncertain mint....
Wish I knew what that was like... [MEDIA]
These are some of my favorite types of ancients to hold in hand. You really feel the years between your fingers and your imagination just runs...
Thanks Ed! This BnF site is great:singing:. Though, their coin is centered much better and is prettier than mine, I'll take mine over BnFs with...
Beautiful coin and that booger coming out of his nose is priceless!
That's a fun one! I was thinking Selge, maybe.
Great call out right there! Have it, LOVE it, translated it into English and would be honored to get to meet and chat with Liampi! She is 1 of the...
As most of my CT pals know, I am doing my best to collect as many types of Macedonian shield coins as within means, that a man can. When I came...
Wanna talk about getting smoked at today's CNG eauction. This beauty started at $100 (just silly), had a estimate of $300 (ridiculous) and sold...
This is clearly a "real" ancient depicting a very life like Picassoianus. [ATTACH]
BIG THANKS @SeptimusT for going down that rabbit hole! It sparked some ideas for me. Using the Greek alphabet and translate, here are some things...
Nice giant slayers @Alegandron! I KNEW that you would have at least a couple laying around...I wonder if they "did in" any barbaroids? [IMG]...
Got a new sling bullet in today's Ares auction; [ATTACH] Listed as: lead roman sling bullet(war weapon) ,About fine to about very fine. Weight:...
Wish I haff something to add... great write up and cool coins!
The good ol Julio Claudians: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I'm bending the rules here, but let's pay a gens familia from before the emperors came and ruined everything. Here's some of the gens Caecilia...
[ATTACH] Pyrrhos of Epiros 287-285 BC and 274-273 BC. Æ Unit (17.5mm, 4.82 g, 6h). Pella mint. Macedonian shield with Monogram of Pyrrhos on boss...
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