[ATTACH] Next: an Emperor or Caesar with a neck fat as a tree trunk:
That has to be a Freudian slip for someone with a collection devoted to Athenian owls!;)
[ATTACH] Next: a denomination marked by a letter:
A budget Lysimachos: [ATTACH] And the 'real deal':[ATTACH] Ironically, I believe I prefer the portrait of the fourree. Only goes to show...
Yes! There is an undeniable satisfaction in holding a large, hefty coin. The artwork on, say, a hemiobol may be astounding, but it's great fun to...
Is it just me, or does your coin have five pellets on the obverse? A triens with a quincunx obverse... Sweet!:) Edit: the middle pellet is of...
4mm. qualifies as teenie tiny, I think. The seal is a pun on the city's name: [ATTACH] Next: another sea-dwelling animal:
It's sad to see a member go out over such a thing. I only know that he always was perfectly well behaved in the Ancients Forum, and I always liked...
Pfhh, Akragas...Totally overrated! Centering issues, weak legends, uneven toning, no luster. And it's not even a deka. That all you've got? Also...
Nice! Do you have any idea what the letters to the left mean, and the 'Sabakes symbol'?
Interesting coin, @kirispupis :) Congrats. Finding an imitation is one thing, finding an attribution is quite another. I hope you'll succeed with....
I think it's this one, attributed to Soloi. As you said, in Cilicia. CoinArchives.com Search Results : Soloi, hemiobol
No need for buyer's remorse. It's a great coin!:) And from a great city in Magna Graecia. (At least, I think so. Without it, Pyrrhos wouldn't have...
The size is in the text under the pic. 17mm.
Very nice example. Sharply struck from good dies. Congrats! Since these coins really chunky you'll probably find it's a lot smaller than you...
[ATTACH] Next: more birds to carry to Athens. New style perhaps?
Happy to share a new coin. Usually, it takes a week or two to get here, but this one made it from the UK in a neck-breaking five days. I have...
Wow, stunning coin! And also ironic that the heaviest coin I've ever seen was cast on a reduced standard... Now,imagine what it would have looked...
Ah, Pusjkin...:)
That interpretation is waaaay off...:) Gogol' is not for beginners. It took me two years of full-time study before I could get through it in...
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