I can give your fouree Tribute Penny a run for its money, lol... [ATTACH]
Damn, nice find! :wideyed:
Now that's how you buy a campgate!
I always arrive to these parties late. I have to backtrack for a moment with a coin of Gaius Caesar, issued under Augustus in Laodicea. This type...
Lots of interesting variety. You've got all the fascinating civic types, some Seleucid tetradrachms, counterstamped coins from the Pompeian and...
I love the coinage of Antioch. If I were to specialize in the collection coins from just one city, it would be Antioch.
Ah, the "T-Rex Arm" period, a significant epoch of Numismatic Art. Here's Licinius II... [ATTACH] The only objection I have to that presentation...
I have to take issue with the idea that that example is average, and not because I'm the one that sold you the coin. If you look through the...
The earlier coins of Scaurus were insanely popular among Romans because of their exotic theme. I have an analysis of this type on my website here,...
It does indeed look like a cast fake, which is curious as these are the most common of Nabataean issues. Who would bother faking them when they're...
Haha! Those are best muttered under your breath anyway.
Oops. Sorry about that. :oops:
The Meditations open with MA listing a number of people that taught him valuable lessons in his life. That inspired me to write something similar...
Congratulations on a great win! The coin looks perfect - leave it be, no more cleaning. If you want clean coins, collect Morgan Dollars.
I'll say one thing for reading that link, it certainly makes me appreciate the science of modern medicine. Both my wife and I, and one of our...
It is indeed a horrible way to die, but why remove the link to the article just because someone found it difficult? It seems to me that...
The reverse of the AP denarius is Vesta. She holds a simpulum and palladium.
I love seeing your collections this way. Beautiful!
No, that was Claudius Ptolemaeus; c. AD 100 – c. 170. Ptolemy was a very popular name among the Macedonian upper-crust going back to Alexander the...
Although there are differences between busts, as in all ancient coins, the Seleucid kings are fairly easy to attribute by their portraits (well,...
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