Another coin from the VNA show group is this drachm of Hormazd IV. There have been a lot of his coins on the market lately (I smell a hoard). I...
NYINC is a problem for kids in the candy store with only one nickel. By the time you see all the choices and make a decision, the candy is a...
You are going to make me spend money I don't want to spend just to get a well struck Chimera tail.
I particularly like the full legend Constantine. Many of these are on small flans but this is a nice coin.
Maesa, Julia, sestertius (another new one from yesterday's show). This coin has no patina and little wear but was either flatly struck or scraped...
How would your collecting of Romans be different if all the rulers just called themselves Augustus without sticking in that Nero or Nerva? Some...
In this case there were 150 dealers with about 25 selling something other than coins (stamps, fossils, books). I bought coins from three dealers...
While I was at a coin show buying a new Valerian, you were here changing to Gallienus. It is hard to keep up with the wanderings. I did see a...
Among the coins that followed me home from the Virginia Numismatic Association show yesterday were two Parthian drachms. The are in many ways...
My coin show yesterday produced a new Probus to share also so I hope you'll not consider this resurrection of last week's thread inappropriate....
I'd need a better photo to say anything about the final letter and whether it matches the RIC column. Today I went to the Virginia Numismatic...
We need to remember that Roman religion was a great deal more complex than modern faiths (any group that has a special god to cover manure...
My first thought is who would possibly make fun of a cellist with snake, spear and witchy shoes but showing up wearing a goat skin head dress is...
Guys, this is not a thread on ancient counterfeits but one on errors. To get us back on the track I'll show my fourree brockage of Hadrian,...
I don't have a particularly great Valerian ant. so I'll show a not particularly nice sestertius with a half decent portrait for this late period....
For some reason I have a desire to update some of my web pages but have no firm idea on what to do to make them more useful to more people. I was...
I fear my hopes are dashed by the fact that the edible dormouse has a fluffy tail and not a rat tail as shown on the coin. That still leaves the...
Whole peacocks are so last millennium. The in crowd dines on peacock tongues. The mouse is on all of these coins so it is not a control mark....
I recall someone (here?) asking why a mouse was placed on this coin attributed to Ti. Quinctius, 112-111 BC? I believe I may have an answer...
http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=482831 This is one I would like to own but don't. It does give us a K emperor since the legends are in...
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