Here's one with a nude athlete I've not posted on CT before: [ATTACH] Gordian III, AD 238-244. Roman Æ Pentassarion, 13.30 g, 27.1 mm, 7 h....
Nice one! I like that portrait style. Here's a IOVI CONSERVATORI CAESS in the "looks better in hand" category:[IMG] Licinius II, Caesar, AD...
Gorgeous! Much nicer than the British Museum specimen, too!
Here's Mercury with a marsupium and caduceus on one of Gallienus: [IMG] Gallienus, AD 253-268. Roman silvered billon antoninianus, 4.25 g, 21.3...
[ATTACH] Next: Triassarion
I have been looking for Strack for a LONG TIME!
No, you just tell them which dealers you have purchased from in the past. Other auction houses are nice, but if you have simply purchased coins...
No, and I was hoping somebody would know more about the Bath excavations to which he refers. It aligns with a crack on my example and also in...
Wow!! The detail on that close-up of the owl's eyes is amazing!!
In an introductory book about Roman coins by John Fox,[1] he notes the existence of a wedge-cutting tool and illustrates what one must have looked...
Isn't she lovely? [IMG] Next: Stephane
Arcadius -- Cyzikus mint [IMG] Next: Another Cyzikus mint issue
This one was formerly attributed to Emesa, but the exact location of the eastern mint has been called into question, and the British Museum now...
Nemesis is one of my favorite goddesses, as you can tell. Here she is on a coin of Smyrna, struck during the time of Commodus. [IMG] Time of...
As an ancients collector, I was confused about this thread's title! To us, the Palladium was the statue of Pallas Athena in the temple of Vesta in...
I have posted some coins already in this thread, but I have more prizes. Moreover, I want to bump this above the Chinese spam cluttering up the...
Jumpin' Jupiter, @octavius , those are stunning coins! All I have is this humble left-facing As. [ATTACH] The cool thing is that it's a reverse...
Just picked this one up this evening. I placed a bid some three weeks ago and forgot about it and was pleasantly surprised by the email...
Yes, same type, not the same coin. But the vast majority of coins listed in Mionnet are not illustrated; that's what makes this coin so fun.
Mionnet Supplement 2, published in 1822, had pretty accurate line drawings. Do you have any coins illustrated in a Mionnet volume? [ATTACH]...
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