Yes, that has been a common security precaution for most places for some time now.
That a nice, high relief expressive portrait of Vespasian.
Thank you for the link. I'll try acsearch as well. I think this is one more of the innumerable coins whose ambiguous attributions remain forever...
Here's my tetradrachm, from Antioch. I have other examples of his coinage, yet to be photographed. Maybe the next Big One out here in CA will...
But I've never seen a reverse of Gordian playing the accordion...
You'd have to be out of your gordian not to like his coinage!
There seems to be a suggestion of an obverse legend on the Roma example, but it is weak and obscured by deposits, and probably much of it is off...
One other observation. The letters above the obverse portrait seem to be: tp(a?)c. They're all very small somewhat crude. I'm pretty sure about...
Thank you. I was thinking, hopefully no doubt, that this coin might be close to the example below: [IMG] Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Kleopatra...
I found this coin among several other dirty, worn bronzes last night. The profile looks a lot like that of Cleopatra VII. At first I thought it...
I know this is straying far from the discussion, a very informative one, by the way, on cast coins of the Ming Dynasty, but I thought I might as...
This is a small black variegated nephrite fu lion that I purchased from a Canadian dealer earlier this year. The period could be late Ming or...
Love 'em, warts and all!
I see... At first I thought this thread was about wasabi sauce! I have some coins with this characteristic, but, being slothful by nature, I'll...
The shekel weight idea is my own. It could possibly been used in some other capacity. I have no doubts about the object's provenance. The...
It's true that local shops get foot traffic and phone calls of people inquiring about that old coin collection left by Uncle Harry, but there has...
I can only speculate that heating, folding and restriking was an expedient measure to speed up the minting process. Why they would do this to...
I agree - the later profile eye and rare heterogeneous styles are often overlooked by collectors in favor of the archaic styles. I think this is...
The frog weighs 183.9 grams. I was off on the shekel calculation. According to one website, factsanddetails.com, a shekel in Mesopotamia was...
I agree. Basically it's the march of "progress", for better or worse. My original thought is that the pandemic is acting as an accelerant in...
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