Only a couple of bucks on eBay - stereopticon card of the Roman Forum, Column of Phocas, Temple of Saturn, Plutei of Trajan. Not sure I "collect"...
Yuzluks aren't quite that thin - about 2 mm. You couldn't break one with your fingers, or even bend one (at least I can't!). Much thicker than...
Around 31 grams - 45 mm. diameter. They are rather thin, and vary somewhat in size. As you can tell, they were crudely struck. Numista says...
One of my better LRBs is a Licinius: [ATTACH] Licinius I Æ Follis (316-317 A.D.) Alexandria mint IMP C VAL LICIN LICINIVS PF...
Interesting news! Sic transit gloria mundi! Böylece dünyanın ihtişamı (according to Google translator). For reasons I cannot recall now, I...
That is a very handsome coin, FF. This gives me an excuse to post a similar one from Sykon I got this summer (for a song!). It has a weirdly...
Officina "special" assignments were made in Byzantine-era Constantinople, so it seems. I know very little about this, but I have a couple of...
Justin II folles varied in weight as well, apparently. At least in Constantinople, with a chi-rho indicating the heavier issue. A while back I...
Nice Byzantines you got there! Well, these are far from "ideal" but one of the great things about Byzantine folles is that bottom-feeders on a...
Nice Faustina Friday as always, RC. Here's a Faustina II Hilaritas dupondius you helped me with back in 2019. [ATTACH] Faustina II...
These are from an interesting series, if in very poor condition. A personification of Parthia on a sestertius of Antoninus Pius - note the bow...
Another fine write-up. I have but one Juba II: [ATTACH] Mauretania Denarius Juba II (25 B.C.-23 A.D.) Caesarea (Iol) Mint REX...
Replying to my own post - how gauche! :shame::yack: But this seems to be Marcus Aurelius. The obverse legend - not very clear in my photo, but...
He does rather look like Lucius Verus, doesn't it? Heck if I know. Now I'm leaning towards Verus - that mop of hair, the beard. When I got it...
I do like this thread - glad it keeps coming back up. Here's one I just got that I really like - a heavy sand patina on a Macedonian bronze of...
Nice upgrade. Just wait, you will succumb to the love of Byzantines... Here's one from Nicomedia: [ATTACH] Justinian I Æ Decanummium Year 38...
Nice one, Henry. And rare to boot. As low as my standards are, I am almost embarrassed to share this one - it came in a lot of somewhat better...
Very interesting write-up as usual, RC. I was not aware of the star version. I do have a Pietas of TB, as well as one of Volusian - [ATTACH]...
Interesting example of the "pressed" fakes that are so prevalent these days (eBay + Bulgaria). Note the sharp edges all around, and the way the...
Beautiful book, Andrew. A few years back I was collecting early printing, and I especially liked the Renaissance portrayal of Classical history -...
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