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Bookmark or Share- I don't think that's who you think it is: Coins that look nothing like ...(Surely Bosporan kingdom coins are cheating. Is this Constantine or Licinius on the reverse?) Imitatives are also cheating. But since I've cheated so much anyway, and @Ryro is a tolerant guy, here's a bemused cartoonish Tiberius from India which I love: Here's Gordian III and Diana after a bender together: But it's the Taman Goths who reign ...
- [Game] World Coins Time Machine… Counting Backward by ... - Coin TalkKM 47a. 27.06 grams. Back in the early 2010s a large hoard of mostly Philip V cobs were discovered inside a wall of a building in Acapulco that was being demolished. Most show little or no wear, along with the usual range of strike quality. It is no surprise that such a hoard would be found in Acapulco.
- Griffins as representations of Nemesis. - Coin TalkThe particular image of a griffin resting its paw on a wheel, typically seated at the foot of Nemesis, is so pervasive that it eventually became a symbol for the goddess herself. For example, a limestone mold of the second to third centuries AD from Egypt, possibly from Alexandria, shows a griffin and a wheel with the Greek inscription Nemesis ...
- Pantikapaion: question about catalog reference | Page 3 - Coin TalkThe site has 128 examples of this type pictured in its archive. One of these days I'll go through them looking for die matches to mine, I think. Although they're all so closely similar that it wouldn't be an easy task, I suspect. Also, I see that they invite people to submit photos of their own Bosporan coins to the archive.
- Kings of Bosporos - Coin TalkHere is a Kingdom of the Bosporus coin of Rheskuporis V (AD 314/5 - c. 342) [Some authors number him "VI"]: Much of his name is on the flan. [PHC]KOVΠOPIS. The reverse date is. ΓK X which is 623 which is AD 326/7. Doug's second coin lead him to ask.
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