Today I am thrilled to present one of my latest acquisitions – a type I’ve been wanting for years, not only for its artistry but also for its...
Salve, my fellow forum members! I hope you all had a great week. Today I'd like to present one of my latest coins - a very rare half-follis of...
Clemency and Moderation: The Forgotten Virtues of Tiberius “The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interrèd with their bones” -...
Been awhile since I was this excited about a coin! :D I was browsing the new inventory of a well-known dealer and saw an as of Commodus listed...
You know how sometimes you see a deal that looks so good, you just buy it without doing your research? Yeah, most times that doesn't end well -...
As some of you may know, I enjoy collecting coins with animals on them - particularly African animals. One of the more interesting animal coin...
I'd been looking for a nice denarius of Julia Domna to add to my collection. They're quite common generally, but I am picky about portrait style...
It's been 2,067 years since Gaius Julius Caesar was assassinated by his supposed friends in the Roman Senate, but the drama of that event,...
I was recently able to acquire this coin for my ongoing Roman Imperial denarii collection. [ATTACH] MARCUS AURELIUS, AD 161-180 AR Denarius...
The past several months I've been working at shifting my collection from 'lots of average coins' to 'fewer coins but of higher quality'. Part of...
Recently I acquired this little bronze coin, struck in the Phoenician city of Tyre during the early Roman Empire. [ATTACH] PHOENICIA, TYRE Time...
Bought this Trajan denarius awhile back, and - like the Domitian denarius I posted about awhile back - I'm only now getting around to working on...
A few months ago I was putting together an order from a dealer on MA-Shops - a couple different coins. I was looking to see what else they might...
Hello to all my fellow CT members! I hope that you are all doing well. 2023 has been a great collecting year for me. As a relative newcomer to...
A week or two ago (as some of you who are also on Numis Forums may have seen) I mentioned that I had a major milestone coin coming in the mail....
Yes, I like my denarii. And as I've posted before, I enjoy collecting interesting as reverse types. But there's something special about a...
A while ago I bought a group lot of 4 small Greek bronzes. Normally, I'm not much interested in these types, but they've all proved interesting in...
I was looking for a filler coin while putting together an order recently, and an antoninianus of Carausius caught my eye. It wasn't in the best...
In Savoca's recent Silver Auction (171st) there was this little Claudian bronze coin from Alexandria, Egypt. For some reason it just appealed to...
You know how it is, when you're browsing a coin auction or store, and a coin suddenly "jumps out" at you? You immediately recognize it as...
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