Thank you for the reassurance, Valentinian. I feel a lot better about it.
Those are awesome coins, zumbly. I have Geta denarius that I've always hoped was a damnatio, but it could just be random damage: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I hope it is okay to resurrect such an old post, but much of the information here pertains to a coin I got in the mail yesterday, and a question I...
Three Philip the Arab ADVENTVS antoniniani - one bronze (on the left): [ATTACH] [ATTACH] And here is a Trajan Decius type: [ATTACH]
I really like this series of Illyria drachms - cheap Greek silver. I have really found this website to be helpful with attributions, general...
Those are denarii from the Roman Republic. Pretty nice Christmas presents. I'm guessing here, but this might get you started - from some Vcoins...
Just got 2 Faustina II sestertii with all the kids, TEMPOR FELICI reverse. One with pearls one with a stephane bust. Most, but not all heads...
Nice one, zumbly. I just got my very first "zoo" series recently, a doe (or an elk?) from Salonina. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
One of my favorite ancient coin references is from the Historia Augusta biography of Lucius Verus, who liked to go on pub crawls with non-Imperial...
By "silver" in this context I mean silver-looking - like Alegandron's attractive antelope above. The definition of "billon" always kind of...
I am very interested in this Bronze Philip antoninianus situation - I recently purchased one very similar and it puzzles me because it looks...
Nice thread Blake. I've kept a copy of Diogenes Laertes on my nightstand for about a year now - I read a few biographies of philosophers and DL's...
Thank you, Ken. I suppose smoothing could turn into tooling if the "smoother" got his burin too close to the lettering or devices. It would be...
That makes perfect sense to me! Thank you.
Nice coins, everyone. Just yesterday I got my very first Roman Republican bronze in the mail, and I spent a couple hours last night trying to...
I really like these sestertii of Valerian. I don't know enough to have an opinion on the tooling, except to say they are pretty and I want one!...
Interesting post. The following celebrity/emperor resemblances are rather striking: Marcus Aurelius = Donald Sutherland Alexander Severus =...
I recently got this little bronze from Mysia in Pergamon, a common one with Athena and a trophy. It has been countermarked with what looks like a...
Put 'em together and we got a pretty nice coin! Speaking of Faustina II, I recently got 2 different TEMPOR FELIC sestertii, one with a stephane,...
Thanks TIF and Ken. I appreciate the info - though "rotting" is hardly good news. I'll see if I can save it, or at least halt the damage. BD...
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