Your reply has reminded me of just how much I enjoyed (and now miss) those shows. Many of those dealers would just love to chat about their coins...
This probably will be of no help to you just now (with the virus), but my experience is that the best way to purchase ancients is to do it at coin...
I wonder what that unknown object is?
Oh well. It just shows how closely related Italians and Romanians still are, in language, at least.
Interestingly I only have a few of this man's coins and not the one you posted.
Gratias tibi ago. Grazie mille. Thank you so very much. I have been very interested in the study of languages for many years. I once read a book...
It seems that you are from Romania by what you write. I have a question I have to ask. From having studied Latin and French and Italian I have a...
I have read authors saying that he really should be up there with Augustus, Vespasian and Trajan as one of the most capable, one of the best of...
One of the things we like to do here is write and read about the interesting characters of antiquity. Often we like to evaluate their performance...
If i may offer some advice. If you have not yet studied Latin, and yes, Greek, try to do so at once. Nothing will give you more of a feel for...
That would be assuming he had to pay the market price. If he were a citizen residing in Rome he may have had access to a subsidized reduced price...
I have no problem with coins that are well worn provided there is no roughness or corrosion on them . From my point of view it just means that...
Geeze, I feel more comfortable just looking at them. BP went from 135 to 120 just like that.
I am not sure that this coin fits into the definition, even a broad one, of "ancient". From the script used I think more modern even than...
Here's a Corinthian Colony [ATTACH] [ATTACH] of Therion (notice the "theta"). It is a very fine, almost delicate design, and must have fooled a...
Nice coin, nicer write up.
Something else about that apple and Roman food. The Romans had a saying similar to our "soup to nuts" for a complete meal. Theirs was, "ab ovo ad...
I'll bet that it is not extinct, that somewhere in the mountains of North Africa the plant still grows but that the local population is unaware of...
Is that the "apple of discord", the one that started the Trojan War?
Thanks and today I learned what TIL stands for.
Separate names with a comma.
