Very entertaining writeup and lively coin (I really need to get some indo/greco silver). Here is his Baktrian contemporary: [ATTACH] Lysias...
As always, you're thoughts are incredibly appreciated. Yours is an excellent example! The depiction on your coin and this amphora, of Perseus...
Lovely example:artist::wideyed: I very much enjoyed the scholarship:bookworm: shared by our own, @Ed Snible in this excellent thread. Read it....
EPIC:hilarious: Of course the Celts had to make their own presence felt and take a swing at the champ: [ATTACH][ATTACH]
Lol! Luv it! I had a LOT of fun putting this creature feature homage together, I think, for a past "Coins that go bump in the night. Ketos vs...
Travels through time (sorry, never enough room in the title) Pretty geeked to win a coin that I didn't know about, that tied into something I've...
Coingrats on the beautiful and history-full coins of the upcoming social wars(a completely useless war that furthered the fissures that the...
That is an AMAZING coin:woot: And despite the holes you can still see much of the artistry:artist:... that said, one hole is character, three...
Thanks for sharing your story @robinjojo It's interesting how the wind blows our needs and desires this way and that. I started out a...
Stunning coin with masterful artistry:wideyed::artist:! As you can tell by my avatar, I LOVE Magna Graecian coins! [ATTACH] Kaulonia AR Nomos, c....
Thanks for the new recommend! Great looking coins. I've saved the seller. What I find suspicious is them getting run through the mud with coins...
Nice new Sulla! Talk about a legacy! We often talk about the Gracchi Brothers starting Rome down the path of dictatorship, but Sulla WAS dictator...
[ATTACH] Next up: another emperor from 69 CE
[ATTACH] Next up: another rare emperor of Rome
THIS is a severe head on an ancient *note the gore coming out of her neck hole: [ATTACH]
He sure does give off a look of displeasure: [ATTACH]
How about poor Sol Invictus, his head sure do smell: [ATTACH] MAXIMINUS II DAIA (310-313). Follis. Antioch. 20 mm, 4,68 g Obv: IMP C GAL VAL...
[ATTACH] Next up: green patina
Ha! Very cool. And reminds me of my Galba fouree that also has a nice, if not weathered, portrait. Denarius for your thoughts Galba... oh wait, I...
Though I've a lot of coins from Moesia, don't have any from Tomis. As you pointed out, Ovid said he was banished due "a poem and mistake". It's...
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