Unless things change significantly here, I doubt that I will be posting many more new threads in this forum, although I do still plan to visit on...
I think I mentioned that I won a couple of coins at the May 5 Roma Numismatics auction. They arrived very quickly from the UK via DHL Express, and...
For anyone interested who has money to spare, I believe there's still time to register. See the catalog at...
New Roman Republican coins have been rather scarce for me this year. The more common types I already own, the more difficult it seems to be to...
I bought a couple of Roman Republican coins at the Dix Noonan Webb auction today, both from more than 70 years later than @Michael Stolt's...
Our former member Ken Dorney has asked me to convey the following sad message: "One of our own, James Pickering, has passed away. James was a...
As I'm sure some of you know, the Corporation of the City of London issued a series of 30 large bronze medals between 1831 and 1902, celebrating...
For years, I've had exactly one Domitian denarius, with -- naturally -- Minerva on the reverse: [ATTACH] (RIC II-1 667 (2007 ed.), old RIC II...
As I've already mentioned, I bought three new Roman Provincial coins, two of them from Egypt (Galba/Roma and Antoninus Pius/Diana) at the recent...
In the Ancients Forum, at https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-new-solidus-valentinian-i.394127/, I recently posted my grand total of five ancient...
This new arrival, a Valentinian I solidus from the Antioch mint, is my third solidus, and my fifth ancient gold coin overall. (I also have 26...
I usually don't post coins I've bought until I actually receive them, but this time my curiosity gets the better of me. In today's Nomos Obolos...
I was going to say Phinally, but decided it would be too cutesy. One or two of you may remember that I used to have an Antoninus Pius tetradrachm...
As I've mentioned before, I sold almost all of my older and more valuable (pre-Victoria, i.e. Elizabeth I - William IV) British gold coins some...
This new purchase is only my second Roman Republican coin acquired this year, both of which depict the Dioscuri. (See my thread about the first...
I don't know if anyone here collects this sort of medal, but in case anyone's interested, I thought I'd post the ones I own, in the trays in which...
I have long admired the silver cistophori issued in Asia Minor under the reigns of Augustus through Hadrian -- large silver coins that are among...
I ended up deciding to use all that money I saved by getting a refund -- plus a little bit more, albeit not as much more as one may think, because...
It's been quite a while since I've posted a new Republican coin with a write-up, but new types that I can afford in the condition I want are...
I'm embarrassed to admit that in the middle of the night last night -- always a bad time to make impulse purchases -- I bought a solidus of...
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