The Wikipedia article on the hoard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trier_Gold_Hoard says, "An amateur archaeologist, Erich Eixner went back to the...
@TIF 's magnificent "snake on horseback" coin, which many of us would love to own, gives us a chance to pause and consider how much a really special...
I don't think so. If someone posts a coin that is for sale, that person takes the risk of increasing the interest in it, but does not have a claim to...
Thank you! Some scholars think they abbreviated that into a monogram on coins. Interesting.
When Vespasian died his sons Titus and Domitian issued coins with legends noting that they were sons of the deified Vespasian. Here is one of...
In the Kleiner article I cited your type first appears in a hoard buried c. 76 BC. The "KP" type is dated to 85-76 BC, under Roman rule.
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In the second century BC Rome was continually expanding. In Asia the Pergamene King Attalos III willed his kingdom to the Romans upon his death in...
No, they don't. I have recently used it for as little as $104 and I am unaware of a lower limit.
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Thanks for the interesting photos.
@Alegandron , this one looks overstruck: Perhaps the undertype could be identified. There is a database of Greek overstrikes discussed here....
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