A nice haul for the year, I think my favorites are #6 (Trajan dupondius), #5 (fat Constantine), and #1 (mean Caracalla).
I've heard cash coins like this (with misaligned hole) called "rosette" cash (I guess the overlay of where the hole should be plus the actual hole...
Thanks for the article on one of history's more fascinating characters. For a fictional view of Newton, I recommend Neal Stephenson's 3-volume...
It's a late Roman Empire bronze coin of either Constantine the Great (307-337) or one of his three sons (who were confusingly named Constantine,...
As I mentioned, three of the coins are too new for me to have done full write-ups, but I have previously posted full write=ups for the other seven...
Very interesting, thanks for the info. Reminder to self: Gods can do more than one thing.
Very nice coins! But they raise a question (at least in my mind). The Indo-Scythians, as I understand it, lived pretty far away from the ocean...
The first one is a copy of a silver dirham from the Umayyad Caliphate (661-750 AD). I could probably figure out the date and mintmark with a...
Hi Doug, the coin is a 1/3 drachm (1.30 g). No way to tell if it was intentionally 1/3, or if someone tried to make 1/2 and didn't cut very...
Since everyone else is doing their year-end Top 10 retrospectives, I guess it's time for mine. The year started out slowly for me, mainly due to...
Very nice coins @furryfrog02! The Carthage coin is exactly the sort I would love- plenty of wear, but still attractive and soaked in history. I...
Another coin from my backlog, and one that will definitely show up on my year-end list soon: [ATTACH] Parthian Kingdom. Susa mint. Billon...
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