Fantastic Silver Trihemiobol (or obol?) from Thasos (Greece), 400 - 350 BCE Obverse: Satyr running and holding Kylix Reverse: Volute Krater...
I was recently at my local coin shop, and a slab caught my eye. It was an NGC vault box slab of Faustina the Elder. It was buffed to a mirror...
E22 from Bruttia, the Brettian League, 215-205 BC [ATTACH] Obverse: Zeus head right within laurel wreathe (unfortunately the patina is heavily...
Some time ago, I purchased a lot of 5 unidentified tesserae for $25. All five have a lovely star and crescent design and quite interesting...
I’ve always loved depictions of Victory on coinage, and this particular one struck me. So I decided to draw it! [ATTACH] The drawings a bit rough...
Here is a lovely obol I bought last Saturday. The reverse is quite fun - the crescent and wolf immediately made me think about werewolves lol....
Bronze coin from Ephesus, lonia, 4th-3rd Century BC I finally found an Ephesus Bee! This has been one of my dream coins for a while - it's not...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] 1.21 g. This coin has me stumped!
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A 11 from Troas, Ilion (AKA Troy), 301-281 BCE. [ATTACH] Obverse: Athena right wearing Attic helmet [ATTACH] Reverse: 11-1 around a Hydria...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Dupondius of Gordian III, Minted in Colonia Viminacium, Moesia Superior, 242 AD. Obverse: Radiate bust of Gordian III right....
1920, city of Aachen, Prussia 10 Phennigs Material: Iron [ATTACH] Obverse: Wolf surrounded by city name [ATTACH] Reverse: Denomination surrounded...
I recently bought this gilded buckle thing for $5 in a box of Roman artifacts. I’m not quite sure what it is, and research has not been fruitful,...
My new smallest coin! Picked this guy up at a show for $30, not too bad, and in pretty good shape for it’s size. [ATTACH] (On a 1838 5 Francs...
Hi all! I just got a lot of bronze coins at a show, and identifying this one has proved troublesome. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] It’s around 1.12 g. It is...
I know these aren’t quite ancient coins, but I thought that they are pretty ancient coin adjacent!I was looking through some ancient arrowheads,...
I recently got this out of a junk bin, and am not sure what it is. I am leaning towards a 1800s German token based on the lettering style of the...
Here are the 58 best coins from my last two coin store visits. The coins were priced by the pound, averaging to around 10 cents a coin! This whole...
Happy Lupercalia! Lupercalia was a Roman holiday spanning February 13th to 15th where two powerful families (the Fabia and Quinctia) gathered at...
Hello All, I have recently purchased a Quadrans of Trajan and had a question about a tiny green spot. But first, here is the coin: 98-117 AD...
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