I purchased this coin ~7 years ago labelled: "Syria, Seleukis and Pieria, Antiocheia AE20. 1st century BC. Zeus". Zeus clearly looks a bit more...
Has there been a 2019 reprint in paperback (11 Apr 2019) of Michael Crawford's Roman Republican Coinage? ISBN 13: 9781108753500? This book which...
I picked up, on EBay, this plaster 5.5x4.5cm Grand Tour souvenir. Other than what you can find in the wikipedia, I know little about this cameo...
I was a little worried about the fragility of this coin when I bid on it and was pleasantly surprised see that, in hand, the flan crack that looks...
This small 13.4mm 1.74gram AE certainly won't win any prizes for most spectacular coin ever posted on CT, but I couldn't resist the nose. [ATTACH]...
The gens Fabia was a prominent patrician family, who claimed descent from both Hercules and Evander. One branch of the gens Fabia, the Fabii...
Although I am more likely to buy Roman Republican coins or Parthian coins, I fell for this unusual coin. This coin from Ariabia Felix which is...
This coin struck me as unusual, especially as I couldn't decide which way was "up" - so I didn't hesitate to pick it up. All three images below...
I only have a few Greek coins, and do not have much context for these coins beyond the names of the legendary kings they display. This coin of...
This coin arrived in my mailbox this week: [ATTACH] I have been looking for a while for a coin of Phraataces, king of Parthia 2 BC - AD 4, son of...
[ATTACH] This 2017 ANS book by William E. Metcalf arrived in my mailbox this week. I learned of the book while I was researching a Cistophoric...
So far my bids in 2019 have all failed - time to explore a coin that has been sitting unexplored - purchased on EBay quite a few years ago - the...
While the most sought after coins can reach astronomical prices, there is no shortage of Roman coins to be found for a modest price. Despite its...
[ATTACH] This coin, which as far as I can tell has not made an appearance yet on CT, is not from the time period that I usually gravitate toward....
[ATTACH] A recent thread in CoinTalk on technology, got me thinking that maybe the ancients would be proud their descendants or even envious of...
Here's the questions that I am hoping the experts of CT can help me to answer: What can the coin flip tell me about this coin (beyond what is...
A recent post on a broken coin got me thinking about some of my favorite broken coins. This Fel Temp (Constans? Constantius? 2.9g) is a favorite...
I am hoping that someone in the CT forum can hel me identify the small coin on the right in the following two pictures. I've posted it with a...
My first post on CoinTalk, I am curious to get opinions on this Roman republican denarius from M. Aemilius Lepidus In my view it is nicely...
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