Very nice! I like the Savoca blue auctions; you can pick up nice coins at very reasonable prices.
One of the coins with the oldest provenance in my collection is this one of Julia Domna: [ATTACH] It appears in Ars Classica VIII, 1924, Bement...
That's AMAZING!!
That's cool! I participated in that auction (bought Roman coins, of course) and was intrigued by several such coins that BCD had been unable to...
Lovely coins augmented by an impressive presentation!
I don't have any new acquisitions to post so I thought I'd quite literally choose a coin at random and write about what makes it special. I used a...
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Nice Gallienus zoo acquisitions!
All sources agree that those with the ΚΑΙΣΑΡΟΣ ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΥ obverse legend is Augustus/Rhoemetalkes I. Sear, however, attributes all coins with the...
I have one, too, but less well-centered and with incomplete legends. I bought it a long time ago in the pre-internet auction days. [ATTACH]...
Here's a similar coin, but it's unclear who is on the coin because experts disagree. Augustus or Tiberius? Rhoemetalkes I or his grandson,...
Gorgeous! I have long mused about the idea of collecting this series.
That coin has a lot of eye-appeal. It's well-centered and nicely toned, too.
The coinage of Faustina gives us the earliest artistic representation of an imperial funeral pyre on Roman coinage.[1,2] The coins bearing this...
Here's a tiny (12 mm) elephant from Antiochos III: [ATTACH]
Lovely coins -- particularly the Artemis from Hierocaesaraea. The biddr platform is great for many auctions, such as Numismatik Naumann, Savoca,...
The only pig coin I have is this tiny one from Kyzikos: [ATTACH] Mysia, Kyzikos (c.480 BC). AR Trihemiobol, 10 mm, 1.16 g. Obv: Forepart of...
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Common coin, uncommonly big schnozz! Let's see 'em! Can you beat this one? [ATTACH] Nerva, AD 96-98. Roman AR denarius, 3.21 g, 18.5 mm, 7 h....
What a fun project to do over the next few months! You have some really nice coins yet to attribute.
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