For heavens sake, Restitutor, what makes you think you can post an ancient coin here where it is obviously a Modern thread? What? You must think...
I just rephotographed my favorite obol with the three pronged tail. I am unlikely to be buying another tetradrachm but am fond of the fractions....
Would you prefer a fourree with the knife off flan? Yours should look better to you now. [ATTACH]
I read the right legend as AV(relius) AN(toninus) and see it as Elagabalus.
That does not seem all that bad if for the whole set. I only have IV-1 which cost me $48.50 from NFA in 1992. It covers Septimius through...
Should you mention how he died?
Exactly. Some of us greatly prefer toned silver to the fully cleaned coins that may even have been polished. The top level NGC slabs recognize...
That expression makes you think of someone afflicted as reported in Lactantius. Don't read this if you are squeamish. Lactantius has been...
I prefer the Hadrian but always like a decent Parthian when they are well centered like yours.
Eyes are the hardest part of a portrait to cut. Remember they had to leave a high place in the die so the eye would be recessed naturally. Not...
I have always liked this coin. I have so far failed to get one like this. There are three coins, IMO, needed for the set. First, there are...
Is it my imagination or do the two portraits resemble each other? At Rome, the earliest GIII portraits seem to resemble Balbinus but Alexandria...
I really was not sure that I would have a list to post this year but I have participated every time since 2013 when I started off with a top 5...
Too late as usual. $165 +10%. You really got my attention because sale 47 was the one that caused me to visit CNG to preview lots and spend...
Trier is a hard mint for Gallus. I only have one. [ATTACH] Trier is also difficult for Constantius II. The first below here was from the...
I missed this note yesterday because I was off on family business retrieving our grandson from college for winter break and, how very...
Yes, we have discussed these several times here. I am no expert; I just have one from the other rulers lacking the Licinius II. This close up is...
Rules changed as the Republic became a distant memory. I think we need to allow for the fact that an emperor could wrap his infant son in a toga...
I'm always late to the party so I'll just show ten of my favorite Kashmir coins. To get the whole legend, it is not uncommon to need two coins off...
Silvered coins are not all that different than silver coins until they get a little wear and become 'part silvered' coins. Those resist my...
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