Hello everyone! I hope you all have a great New Year and a wonderful 2024! Here are my favorite coins of 2023. 10 The Circus Maximus This type...
I was recently very happy to add an interesting coin with a provenance from the Stoecklin Collection. This coin was struck under the Persian...
[ATTACH] Julius Caesar AR Denarius, African mint, 47-46 BC Dia.: 19 mm, 6h Wt.: 3.83 g Obv.: Diademed head of Venus to right Rev.: Aeneas...
I posted this list over on Numis Forums recently but I know not everyone frequents both sites. I thought the group here might enjoy this list as...
I really enjoy the archaic Peloponnesian coin design convention of using a locally prominent animal as the main obverse design and an incuse /...
I have wanted one of these coins for a long time but, until last year, I hadn’t found the right one for the right price. The portrait was the...
[ATTACH] ROMAN REPUBLIC M. Volteius M.F., Moneyer AR Denarius, Rome mint, struck 78 BC Wt.: 3.65 g Dia.: 17.1 mm Obv.: Laureate head of Jupiter...
Below are a couple of new additions I thought the group might be interested in. Both have really nice provenances that I am very happy with....
I thought you all might want to see my new Tarentum Nomos. As @Severus Alexander pointed out over on NF it is a Pyrrhic War issue coin! [ATTACH]...
I started noticing last year that many of my purchases tend to fall into broadly definable themes or categories, whether I consciously seek those...
2021 was a really good year for my collection. Interestingly, I managed to add some coins I have been after for years while I missed on several...
[ATTACH] SKYTHIA, Geto-Dacians Koson AV Stater, struck mid-1st century BC Dia.: 20 mm Wt.: 8.35 g Obv.: ΚΟΣΩΝ; Roman consul accompanied by two...
Ancient coin prices on average have increased in 2021 which has caused many collectors (including myself) a good deal of frustration on occasion....
This is the third installment in a series of vignette style threads that I decided to undertake in order to help me catch up on write ups for...
I am happy to have added this prutah struck in Jerusalem during the First Jewish War to my collection this year. Because I think the context is...
I am very excited about this coin but it was a hard one to write up because it has so many different points of interest in its favor. I chose to...
I became fascinated by this type after I read about it in the book Monumental Coins: Buildings and Structures on Ancient Coins which I bought...
[ATTACH] Roman Empire Severus Alexander AR Denarius, Antioch mint, struck AD 223 Dia.: 18.38 mm Wt.: 3.20 g Obv.: IMP C M AVR SEV ALEXAND AVG,...
[ATTACH] Roman Republic M. Junius Brutus AR Denarius, Rome mint, struck 54 BC Dia.: 20.5 mm Wt.: 3.56 g Obv.: LIBERTAS; Head of Liberty right...
Last month I posted a Greek Edition of coins I found interesting but hadn’t yet posted to the forum. This month I have a group of Roman coins...
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