If a dark red or purple wine were poured in the cup that prevented light from passing thru the glass would most likely stay a solid green color....
Bart9349, Many thanks for the wonderful podcast :D! The 1st video with the narrative of the Lycurgus Myth gives this thread a depth I never...
Wow :jawdrop:! I think Hercules must have pounded out that coin, nice score :D. That's an unusually large diameter for that period only because of...
Broucheion, That's an excellent memento from ancient Alexandria that a traveling tourist would have come home with :D. The sites of ancient Egypt...
I'll never put a set of the 12 Caesars together but I enjoy looking at the ;). Your Nero & Domitian denarii are my favorites :D. The Domitian...
I scored my 1st sestertius of Gordian III this year :D. It's nothing special, but for $99.00 I couldn't resist :smug:. As Doug Smith states, there...
R.P. The Egyptians were light-years ahead of all the other ancient cultures :cool:.
ancientone, That's a stunning piece of gold-work with cloisonne & precious stones :jawdrop:. The Alexandrian artists invented the cloisonne...
That's an interesting tidbit from history :D. Diocletian also included Alexandrian glassware in his Edict of Maximum Prices :).
The Lycurgus cup is intact as found, however, the metal mounts were added later.
Alexandria, Egypt was the 2nd most important city in the Roman Empire for a variety of reasons. Most of us are well aware of the long tradition of...
I've got quite a few plate coins :D. Posted below are just a few. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Antioch - Syria, Antoninus Pius, struck...
J.G., Thanks for the info & earlier thread :D.
ominus1, Congrats on completing the family group :D. I'm still missing a Tet of Herennius Etruscus :(, & missed a good one last nite at the...
Peter, That's a lovely sestertius with an attractive patina that enhances the coin :D. I always prefer bare-headed portraits without distracting...
Since so little is known about Hostilian, & his reign was so short there is a lot of misinformation about him. One example that really irks me is...
Donna, You too have a handsome, lustrous antoninianus with the Defender Mars reverse. Your Mars has a pretty nasty face :mad: that just might...
El Cazador, Your pair of antoniniani are handsome too :D. Your coin depicting Mars has the short inscription versus the long inscription on...
I had to thumb thru my notes to find info on Hostilian's sister o_O? Martin Armstrong writing in his blog Monetary History of the World,...
octavius, Both of those are nice looking coins :D. I especially like the depiction of Mars on the 1st coin ;).
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