TIF was around again for a good part of last year, and until a few months ago. I think she's just really busy with her new job and other things.
A few of my favorite Gallienus neckbeards: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Fascinating! A question: I assume that your goggles have some kind of magnifier. Do you believe that the engravers of ancient coins managed...
My one bronze coin (actually my one coin, period) of Philip II of Macedon. I bought it at one of the recent JAZ Numismatics auctions by our own...
Please pardon my astounding ignorance, but what exactly is a stick pin used for? Is it like a tie pin or tie clip, used to hold a tie in place?...
My only Nero tetradrachm from Alexandria appears to be the same type (and same year) as @JayAg47's. Nero, Billon Tetradrachm, Year 12 (65/66 AD),...
I also never heard the "rule" about not reviving threads more than a year old, unless a thread is intended to be ongoing. It doesn't happen often...
And yet they reached and besieged Vienna as late as 1683. One could just as easily pick that year as an arbitrary end-point of the Empire (even...
I have only two coins depicting the Dioscuri. (Not counting coins that just show their hats, or just show the stars that are often seen above...
I noticed the same thing. I suppose whoever created this based the date on the idea that that's when the Ottoman Empire reached its peak. Probably...
The one time I purchased from a dealer in Israel, I had to wait more than a month before the Israel Antiquities Authority issued the necessary...
Here's one of Macrinus and Diadumenian that I forgot to include in my earlier comment: Macrinus and Diadumenian Caesar, AE Pentassarion [5...
See Jones, John Melville, A Dictionary of Ancient Roman Coins (London, Seaby, 1999) at pp. 194-195 [entry for "Minting"}: "The dies from which...
And thanks to you as well!
Thank you!
The A. Pius/Marcus Aurelius coin is high on my mental list of coins I very much want. It's not at all rare, but the ones I see are never in...
Great coins so far! @kevin McGonigal, I don't think you're going to find too many such coins issued during the Roman Republic, since there was a...
I agree that fossils aren't artifacts, but at least they reflect formerly living beings! Here are two I own. Other than the first one being a...
No, don't just post away, @James R. Have some consideration for other people. Combine all these questions into one post.
Terrific write-up, as always. Here are a couple of coins depicting Salus (although the figure holding a snake on the reverse of the first one is...
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