The story of Glycon, the sock puppet snake god with a bearded humanoid head, snake body, and fish tail, is so outlandish and interesting that I...
This hemidrachm was struck in the city of Caesarea, the capital of the eastern Roman province of Cappadocia (modern day Kayseri, Turkey). It was...
The club of Herakles is a common fixture on the reverse of Roman provincial coins from the city of Caeserea in Cappadocia (present day Kayseri,...
I received this Cappadocian drachm of Nero in the mail today and, not having much of an investment in the coin, figured I'd take a stab at freeing...
Here's a simple and cheap photography setup that allows me to take shadowless coin photos quickly with my cell phone. I will occasionally use my...
I've been racking my brain trying to date and attribute this coin struck in Roman Egypt under Antoninus Pius and thought I'd throw out an S.O.S....
2021 has flown by, and I can’t believe it’s already time for another top 10 post. I’ve shifted my collecting focus mostly to Greek and Roman...
Here's a nice big bronze from Pontos showing the mythological slaying of Medusa by Perseus. [IMG] [IMG] Pontos, Amisos, Mithradates VI...
Does anyone know where I could find a unified set of simple regional maps (either free or paid) of the ancient, post-archaic Greek world?...
I had been waiting on the arrival of one last coin this year, which thankfully arrived a couple of days ago in time to make my top 10 of 2020....
Here's a provincial bronze coin from Nicaea in Bithynia that I picked up a while back and just got around to attributing. The seller had...
Accept PayPal or Venmo. Shipped via USPS First Class mail. [IMG] [IMG] Antoninus Pius Æ As $50 + $5 shipping within US 138-161 AD Struck...
I wanted to share a few favorites that I picked up earlier this year. I haven't been bidding much lately because of the high hammer prices I've...
I'm selling the following 20 ancient Greek and Roman coins. These were spread across 2 threads of 10 coins each, but the mod kindly merged them...
This pendant arrived in the mail today, which I picked up for twelve bucks at auction. I believe it's a struck counterfeit Syracusan tetradrachm...
Here are my top 10 coins of 2019, presented in no particular order. As you can see, I'm a bit of a generalist… I buy anything that catches my eye...
I dug this rough, little bronze coin out of a drawer today and am having a bit of trouble identifying it. I'm guessing the difficulty is why it...
Here are two coins of Alexander the Great: a lifetime tetradrachm struck in Tarsos and a tiny obol. I don't know if the obols are less common...
I was hoping my CT friends with knowledge of later Alexandrian tetradrachms might be able to help me with an attribution problem I'm having. I...
After watching I, Claudius again the other week, I decided to buy this as, which I'd had been watching for a while on eBay. Typically I avoid eBay...
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