[ATTACH] Valerian I, Potin tetradrachm 255-6, Alexandria. 11.2g, 23mm. Laureate, cuirassed bust right / Nike standing facing head left, wings...
This is what happens when you get around to it too quickly! [ATTACH]
Well, I agree with Cicero, although nearly forty years ago when I was working in France I went to watch the bullfights in the Roman Arena in Arles...
If it helps here is one of my 214s albeit a different officina, 215 is similar with rosette diadem instead of laurel on his head. [ATTACH]
Good writeup, and nice coin. He sounds like quite a decent guy, by the standards of the day (or today for that matter!). Mine is not as rare or...
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No galley in full sail, but here's the lady:- [ATTACH] Caesarea Cappadocia Ae22 6.67g. CΑΒ ΤΡΑΝΚVΛΛΙΝΑ AVG Diademed and draped bust right / MHTP...
I would have guessed 3rd century, for the reasons Rasiel gives. But it seems others have a compelling argument for something like a mint mark up...
I don't know about the vast majority, but there were some so-called "emperors" that lasted a couple of weeks if they were lucky before being...
They are often graded and slabbed, the gold anyway, sellers maybe think it will increase the price. It's just that the coins contemporaneous with...
Thank you, just entered my first couple and it's a thumbs up from me. Twenty years ago it would have been a wondrous thing indeed!
Even if it were genuine - a billion lira upwards??? Now I now the Italian lira was never the most valuable coin in the purse, but that does seem...
Just dad from me [ATTACH]
A Tetricus II from the Chalgrove hoard [ATTACH] (image has been lightened to show detail - that's not really silver!)
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