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I first noticed the problem at Zurqieh, when I clicked on the Sasanian section, to pull them ALL up and browse through them.  Only 100 would come up. 

Balbinus - 238 - AE 36 Tarsus, RPC Online VII.2 2997, BMC Cilicia p. 208, 239, G, 36.4mm., 29.502g

Next, same theme, another large 30 plus mm. provincial.

My Zeno placeholder arrived.  Both were from the same dealer.  Given some similarities in wear between the Leo and the Zeno, one wonders if both came from the same hoard?

Zeno second reign AV20 Solidus. Constantinople 

Obv: Helmeted, diademed and cuirassed bust of Zeno facing, holding spear over his right shoulder and with shield, ornamented with a horseman spearing a fallen foe, over his left. D N ZENO PERP AVG.

Rev: Victory standing left, holding long jeweled cross in her right hand, to right, star. VICTORIA AVGGG Δ, CONOB, 

RIC 910.  4.22g.  AD 476-491. 

That's quite a handsome piece, much better than my horrendous Claudius Aureus.  Congrats!

Thanks!  That's often how I make a purchase, if I don't have a specific example in mind.  I need many results to pop up. 

I first noticed this problem while searching inside the zurqieh store.  The problem: only 100 results will show up, even if there are 10 billion examples.  I thought at first this was a Firefox or noscript problem, as it came up normally in Edge, but when I was looking today within Numiscorner for a Louis XIV medal for dad, only 100 results would show up, no matter what browser; Firefox/Edge/Chrome. There's no page 2, 3, etc. 

I also tried another search term, follis, just to make sure. Same results.  To make double sure, I chose Savoca and tried follis: 100 results.

This is very annoying.  What happened?

Well, I guess this thread called it right. 

That's a very nice example!

Tiberius III - 698-705 - AV Solidus - S 1360 - 4.46g. officina B XF

34mm, year 36, gamma.

I'd have to look up the Sear number, but here's a budget example of an Antioch Justinian I.

Year 36 is the seller's description. It kind of looks like

X

X

X

GI 

Which would be year 37.

Even before seeing the text, I also voted Albinus.  Albinus was Caesar, after all.  Did Caesars also have statues?

It is amusing, but: https://www.numisforums.com/topic/6437-what-roman-emperors-looked-like/#comment-84458

I'm semi-retired from the record collecting part, but I heavily collected original recordings (mostly 16" records/transcriptions) of old-time radio shows/news.  I have two copies of Roosevelt's Day of Infamy speech, had copydisc of War of the Worlds, and of course one comes across bizarre or dirty shows/recordings.

It's quite an interesting collecting genre.  The overstrike makes the coin more interesting.

Question; why are silver coins of the Nabataeans scarce?  Were they melted down for the plentiful coinage of Trajan?

I enjoyed the writeup.  Congrats on the rare type!

There is something really satisfying about 24k gold.

I have only two tremissises (what's the plural?); Johannes & a decrepit Justinian. 

That's a great milestone and a nice example!

I'm also a budget collector, and I've been scooping up budget gold coins lately.

Agreed.  Savoca also has fairly cheap Fedex shipping to the U.S.

If I'm ordering anything fragile, I've been having to go the DHL Express way from a certain UK dealer, about double the cost, to avoid the horrors of the floppy mailer.  Expensive, but the stiff envelope negates the drawbacks of the floppy mailer.  Through a combination of shipping cost and partly just for the principle of it, I've cut way back on buying from them.  Which is a shame, since there's many lovely coins.  Oh, and add a phone number (doesn't have to be a valid one) if you choose DHL from them. They don't tell you upfront, but allegedly their DHL carrier requires a phone #, the only time I've had this happen.

If possible, I usually choose the postal route from most European dealers.

Very cool and informative!  I have a somewhat more decrepit version of the Philip Ant, so I'll go a different route for the sun:

Attribution: Mitch 982
Date: 1240/1 AD, AH 638
Obverse: Lion walking right, above, sun flanked by two stars
Reverse: Kufic legend in four lines
Size: 22.07mm
Weight: 2.65 grams

For the moon, I don't know.  I don't think I have any photographed examples of empress Antoninianii.

How cool!  I bought a Trebonianus Sestertius from the VOTA collection, for the patina.

That's very cool to have a Sear plate coin.  Maybe Jeff Clark was an important collector?  Yours also has a pretty nice patina.

You've been sticking to your goal of getting good quality coins.  I've been in the budget gold pool, which are low-grade by AV standards, but still enjoyable and an upgrade to little nummi.

I don't have many pictured coins of Commodus, and very few in general.  I don't really collect the Antonines that much.

The only pictured ones I have are a couple of low-grade ones with nice patinas.  Many times I'll buy a coin for the patina and the type which it's on is fairly irrelevant.   I didn't copy and paste the platform scene one.

Commodus
� Sestertius
22.96 g / 32 mm

M COMM ANTON AVG PIVS BRIT
Laureate head right
R/ VOTA SVSCEP DECEN PM TRP VIIII IMP VII COS IIII PP  S-C
Commodus sacrifying over tripod left

C.988 (6 fr), RIC.441
scratch on reverse
green patina

Classical Numismatics just did a video on Heliokles, from Bactria proper.

I enjoy the Indo-Greeks a lot!  For whatever reasons, probably because they're mostly small coins, I don't have a lot.

I suppose it'll be an enduring mystery what the decrepit Indo-Greek AR Tetradrachm is. I pulled it out of an HJB pick bin in the '90's, back from when they had tons of Indo-Greek stuff.  It's pretty far gone, but I suspect that it's Menander (seems to be helmeted).  I'd have to find it, then I'd have to conquer my coin photography woes to show it.

That's pretty cool!  I don't have that type.

Wouldn't it have been easier to save a picture or printscreen option?

How fun!  Unless some are hiding in my bag o' provincials, I have none of this type.

Yay, very cool!

Very interesting!  Sadly, I don't think I have anything of ancient Spain.

Pretty neat, especially the OP (and the rare double portrait coin, as well).  I love coins of Probus, although I have a grand total of two, one of which was purchased in the 1990's, the other in 2009.