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I've nearly done this, selling my first collection of "stuff" for one "big" coin around which I've spent the last 10+ years building up to my current collection. I'd struggle to c… (View Post)

That is a very neat book! I hadn't seen that before. Is there any additional information available on the coins which have been rubbed/imprinted? I'm wondering if the Colosseum sestertius is my examp… (View Post)

This Phrygian cap/Pileus represented just a tiny change in the course of history: Struck during the late summer/early autumn of 42 B.C, roughly two-and-a-half years after the fateful, history-alterin… (View Post)

Congratulations! That's an excellent addition and I would certainly say that's a confident Boscoreale coin. I'm coincidentally waiting on two new Boscoreale aurei from recent purchases as well; here … (View Post)

Much to the chagrin of history buffs, the new Pompeii movie has very little to do with life in Ancient Rome. In the interest of leveling the scales, I felt the need to post a particularly relevant nu… (View Post)