Nice coins and write-up! Also, I always enjoy your snippets from Banduri. Here are some more lions (and lion scalps): Lycian lion: [ATTACH]...
I did – sorry. If I by any chance see another one coming up, you'll get a message, and I also promise to post pictures once I have the coin in...
It seems well possible that Doug's picture and question have drastically increased the demand for this interesting overstrike. @Justin Lee, did we...
I need to make space in my medieval box. Below are some coins that have to go. Some you might have seen here before. To help you with your...
It's generally interesting to see which coins currently enter the market in great quantity. One obvious example are Athenian tetradrachms,...
It's RIC VII Rome, 105. 104 would be the same type for Maximian.
It took me a second to see it – quite a wonderful coin! Here is one of my "Kevins": [ATTACH] Caracalla, Roman Empire, provincial AE issue of...
Nice barbarians everyone! Here are some more. I already posted the first one elsewhere, and would still argue that this is a Christmas coin. We...
I bought this one from Ken at the show. Although the remains of the legend only read "I I I I I," I am fairly convinced that the obverse shows...
It is a myth that the ancients thought the world to be flat. In Plato's Phaedo, for example, Socrates states that he believed "that the earth is a...
Well, it's only February, and I already had two and a half problems with USPS this year: 1. This not-so-common bracteate, ordered from Germany,...
I'll be there on Sunday.
@Nemo , thank you for the compliment and for your knowledgeable answer. That's quite a fascinating observation.
I am reading this with great interest – thank you for showing these coins! The lions on your second and third coin look very similar. Is it the...
That's a fantastic coin! Here are some of mine, all in humble bronze. The first one, a local imitation, doesn't look that appealing, but I find it...
I tend to keep away from discussions about grading since I seldomly find them insightful. What generally bothers me about the concept of grade is...
It's not easy to tell from your pictures, but I guess that your first three coins are from 17th c. Swedish Livonia. You can find more info and...
Hello Postumus, I believe your coin to be an 11th c. Hungarian denar, probably of king András I (more information and image source here). It once...
I dabble a bit in collecting Elymaean drachms and find them most charming. Since I have the respective catalogue at hand, I looked up your coins....
Just an attempt to resurrect this thread: [ATTACH] Pitane, Mysia, AE11, 4th–3rd c. BC. Obv: Horned head of Zeus Ammon r. Rev: Pentagram, pellet...
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