My Birthday is tomorrow. Just sayin'. ;)
What a great looking coin! Nice background historical info too. Congrats!
The Titus on your page is one of the better fourreés I've seen of him.
I should stop romanticising so much ...
You would think their auction software would recognise you as the same bidder and just raise your high bid. Very odd that it bid against you!
I like the Balbus. It has a lot of eye-appeal. If you already had the type I could understand the huge disappointment - since you don't, just keep...
And that's why I don't really lose any sleep worrying about the paper envelopes I store my coins in. 100 years ago no one did either and the coins...
Now, that's a fourreé I would like to have. I wonder if some Roman realised it was a forgery and instead of throwing it out or passing it on made...
Lindsay Davis can be a fun read, although her use of modern English slang at times breaks the mood.
Yea, I'm not sure when archival paper coin envelopes came into wide-spread use. Do you know if the coin had been stored in it? If so, I see no ill...
I'm glad to see it made it to you safe and sound. Interesting that the paper envelope has travelled with the coin so long! Was there anything...
Funnily enough, this coin's silver quality is actually pretty good. Silver coins at Rome when this piece was struck are near 80% fine. I can't...
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I like the portrait. His early ones tend to be squarish like that one.
The BBC programme Rome: Rise and Fall of An Empire in the Constantine episode interpreted Constantine's 'sign' as an astronomical phenomena....
Coincidentally, these two quinarii arrived within days of my receiving the vintage Bausch and Lomb magnifying glass. (Yes, I'm going to show it...
I had previously mentioned in another thread that a coin was added to a recent purchase for free as an incentive to close the deal. The main coin...
I bet that is really cool in hand! Congrats on your new find.
I guess I bought it for nostalgia reasons more than for anything else. I used to see these kind of magnifying glasses laying around my...
Well, the Seerite arrived this morning, and I got to say it is utter rubbish. It has a very poor quality lens compared with the B&L, or anything...
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