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Re: Post a picture of a roughly 10K anything..,
This denarius of Augustus and a triumphal arch was a hair under $10K and probably the finest known of the type. The depicted arch is believed to be the single span arch originally erected in the Roma… (View Post)32 -
Re: If you did not collect US coins then what country would you have interest in next?
I went from US to Colonials to Spain to then be bitten HARD by the ancient bug. (View Post)3 -
Re: ancient coin eye candy
Thanks! And I do indeed have a Judaea Capta aureus (which should be on my website already, but including here in case it isn't rendering for some reason). It has an extensive pedigree as well, back t… (View Post)8 -
Re: ancient coin eye candy
The owner of that website is a friend of mine and both a passionate collector and photographer: his high resolution images show coins in a level of detail rarely seen (and that I can't come close to … (View Post)5 -
Re: What Were The 4 or 5 Coins You Dreamed Of Having As A Kid, That You Own Today?
For a school assignment in third grade, we wrote poems about our future. I included a line of: "I hold in my hand a coin from 500BC". Now I'm fortunate to have several (although I did not r… (View Post)4