Looking back at my auction battles for coin acquisitions in 2021, most seem to have ended up going this way... [ATTACH] For avoidance of doubt,...
I bought relatively few coins this year and was therefore not expecting to be able to put together this particular year end list variety that...
With the little love that frogs have received on coins, I have to assume that many ancient cultures were either indifferent to or had a bias...
With the prices for ancient coins running as hot as they have been this past year, I've been sitting on my hands in auctions far more than in any...
Arriving today alongside and from the same John Anthony auction as the Decius double sestertius I showed in another thread is this wonderful...
What could possibly be better than nice hefty Imperial sestertius? A double sestertius of course! And what could be better than a double...
My first pickup of 2021 is a large bronze with Nero on the obverse, and on the reverse, Olympias, wife of Philip II of Macedon and mother of The...
Here's a new arrival that I was very pleased to win this past December. It's a rather rare type that I'd never seen before, and more critical to...
Here's one of my last purchases of 2020, which arrived late on New Year's Eve. It's a small Roman provincial of Corinth with the city's familiar...
It's been almost a month now since I posted my overall Top 10 of 2020, and I thought I should also put this $1 - $100 list out before the year is...
So I'm jumping on the early reveal bandwagon, but I reckon that by putting out my list now, I have at least a fair to decent chance of persuading...
High on my want list has always been a coin with a portrait depicting not a deity or ruler, but instead, an ancient poet, philosopher, or...
I had for some years been looking for a portrait coin of Cleopatra Selene II, and was both surprised and pleased when I finally managed to win one...
When @David Atherton last showed his example of this type in September, I'm embarrassed to say I couldn't help gushing like an overenthusiastic...
I've been in coinstalking mode for one of these ever since @TIF scored hers and showed it off here last year. I mean, a coin with a chicken on one...
RPC volume VII.2 - From Gordian I to Gordian III (AD 238–244): all provinces except Asia - has just come online and is available here. The...
But for a twist of fate that brought him, at the age of about 12, to the attention to Emperor Hadrian, Antinous might have lived and died...
The virtue of Pietas, religious or filial devotion, was one of great importance to the ancient Romans, and Pius was a cognomen reserved for those...
So Dies Natalis Solis Invicti is already over here, and today in my part of the world, the annular solar eclipse was fully visible, with the...
I've been really enjoying going through the many year-end lists that we've had this year, and appreciating the fact that our board (and hobby)...
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