I have coauthored a paper in one of very few journals dedicated to ancient numismatics, OZeAN. The paper describes several new Nabataean drachms,...
Usually CNG is very good at taking pictures of the coins they list, particularly recently when they started using gray background and taking...
I like this coin very much, it is very rare with less than 10 known, and it is one of the best, if not the best of the type. So, should I break...
Just won it 3 days ago, and here it is already in my hands in Boston! Kudos to Savoca! [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Rabbath Moba (misattributed as...
Just received my winnings from the last Obolos, and the most interesting, in my opinion, is a coin depicting quite unusual mythological scene....
A friend of my is a researcher at Hebrew University who is working on a comprehensive corpus of coins of Gaza under Roman rule. He will greatly...
Was shipped on Monday and here it is: [ATTACH] JUDAEA, Gaba. Commodus. AD 177-192. Æ (22mm, 11.14 g, 12h). Dated CY 245 (AD 184/5). Laureate...
I won one lot on Themis 9 and immediately paid through Biddr. For absolutely ridiculous 40 pounds they charged for shipping I expected express...
Recently purchased this AE 28 from Philippopolis in Arabia. Philip I is clearly depicted as a zombie! The reason I bought it was the reverse,...
Today I have learned that few of my coins have in fact very interesting provenance, they originate from the Thomas Ollive Mabbott collection which...
Recently a reputable dealer I know for over 20 years have offered me a coin I could not pass on. It is a large bronze of Otacilia Severa from...
Received this coin today from Roma, it was in a group lot with few levantine provincial coins. I spent few hours but couldn't identify it. Any...
Got this in a group lot I purchased to get a completely different coin. My focus is on city coins and I don't know much about imperial, but I...
Sometimes it happens - you look from a different angle at some well known coin published in many works and suddenly you realize that it might be...
I am searching for an archive grade paper for coin descriptions. I keep my coins in trays, so they get in direct contact with the paper. I guess...
I was expecting some coins in mail, but definitely not this lot :). I guess they were doing cleaning or disinfection in some mail facility and...
For a while it has been quite a discussion whether Syrian and Phoenician tetradrachms from the time of Caracalla and Macrinus attributed to many...
After 25 publications in the fields of genomics and biochemistry, my first peer reviewed numismatics paper was just published. Well, rather short...
[ATTACH]I have recently picked up this coin of Philip from Caesarea Maritima depicting Dionysus reclining on a panther. This reverse type is not...
This little coin was in a group of Greek coins from middle east. I have never seen this exact type, but obverse seems to have Tyche, like many...
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