I'm not sure how to explain what "drives" Grimm's law. I've always taught it simply as a means of describing the sound correspondences between...
Steve, can you turn the camera/phone sideways and photograph/post the entire "historical note" Sear provides? It looks really helpful. At the end...
Sorry to resurrect this dead thread, but I meant to ask one follow-up question: Was this “Sacra Moneta” coin struck by the tetrarchs related in...
Yes, Ed Snible pointed that out, and indeed I find that explanation persuasive. Maybe all those descriptions with "M-E-T-A in wheel" need rewriting?
And thanks for the link to the bronze version as well. I'm fairly certain I have a bronze version of this coin. Anecdotally, it seems the silver...
Thanks. You can see that weird T on Steve's coin nice and clear--the grapheme that some regard as a "double sigma."
Would you believe I'm actually teaching Grimm's Law next week in my HEL class? I give them a bunch of Latin/Greek >>> Germanic word pairs and...
For my price "code" I used to use simple Roman numerals. Again, the point was not to keep my secrets from the North Koreans. It was just not to...
Awesome. Thanks. Man, I gotta learn some Greek!
I use MSWord and make a table template that I used for each coin. A single document might have all my Constantines, or Biblical coins, or Twelve...
As I have mentioned on this list before, I'm cataloging 32 coins given to my university. I'm generally doing fine, but I can't find what the META...
A bit too much glare for my taste. But maybe with some experimentation... BTW, has anyone had good results using one of those plugable USB...
Here's a bad photo of my Agrippa with BD. This is after the coin had deteriorated, but you can still see a very strong portrait. Sigh. The one I...
I had one of these in spectacular relief. I sold it on eBay because it had aggressive bronze disease that I could not stop. (I fully disclosed the...
Sorry to leave off rhapsodizing about Tennessee, but I had a further question about this coin for @Victor_Clark or anyone else who might have...
Here's a very informative post about the OP's denarius. https://www.cointalk.com/threads/victory-over-parthia.265901/
Well, I'm sending this post right now from Jackson. Victor and I live about 150 miles apart. One day I'm going to get him down to my university to...
Ok; I will take a better photo and get some measurements and send the info your way.
I'm very disappointed that this post has been up for a week without an obligatory Bryan Adams reference. Is there no Canadian pride? [MEDIA]
Well, that's a tasty snack indeed. Should I register its existence in some formal way? I don't think I've ever had an unlisted coin and don't...
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