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    Byzantine Literature

    Here is the page: [ATTACH]
    Post by: Valentinian, Mar 19, 2019 at 1:40 PM in forum: Ancient Coins
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    Follow the coin theme GAME - ancient edition - post ‘em if you got ‘em

    This coin has grapes! It is from Soloi in Cilicia: [ATTACH] 20-19 mm. 10.84 grams. Amazon kneeling on left knee examining bow with both hands,...
    Post by: Valentinian, Mar 19, 2019 at 1:29 PM in forum: Ancient Coins
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    Help: what does the hammerprice tend to be?

    By "auction" do you mean eBay? The quality and likely value of that coin is below the usual auction-firm minimum. I have seen Arcadius AE2s that...
    Post by: Valentinian, Mar 19, 2019 at 12:38 AM in forum: Ancient Coins
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    Unusual Byzantine Anonymous Follis Help

    Metcalf (D. M., not William E.) proposed the existence of Class A3 in Metcalf, D. M. "Interpretation of the Byzantine Rex Regnantium folles of...
    Post by: Valentinian, Mar 18, 2019 at 10:46 PM in forum: Ancient Coins
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    Byzantine Literature

    They are not pictured in the book. So, perhaps you mean the types of those coins as opposed to those particular coins. So, can you tell the list what...
    Post by: Valentinian, Mar 18, 2019 at 9:40 AM in forum: Ancient Coins
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    Question About Roman Denarii and Parthian Drachmas

    I don't think modern scholarship agrees with this. Scholars doing experiments find it easy to strike coins cold and the advantages are obvious. Here...
    Post by: Valentinian, Mar 17, 2019 at 10:53 PM in forum: Ancient Coins
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    Ancient Coin Talk Convention?

    By the way, if we do go to the summer ANA in Chicago, be aware that google maps and some google searches do not find the closest hotels (which,...
    Post by: Valentinian, Mar 17, 2019 at 9:14 PM in forum: Ancient Coins
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    Ancient Coin Talk Convention?

    I vote for this one. I have been to the summer ANA "World's Fair of Money" several times and it is always good for ancients. Furthermore, it has a...
    Post by: Valentinian, Mar 17, 2019 at 8:53 PM in forum: Ancient Coins
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    Unusual Byzantine Anonymous Follis Help

    About Class A3. Class A2 began c. 976 and lasted until 1025 or maybe 1034 [Grierson]. That's 50 years. Fifty! It is no wonder that inflation made...
    Post by: Valentinian, Mar 17, 2019 at 7:50 PM in forum: Ancient Coins
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    Unusual Byzantine Anonymous Follis Help

    @TIF answered the OP question. Here is a site on anonymous folles: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ByzAnon/ I wish people would no longer attribute...
    Post by: Valentinian, Mar 16, 2019 at 10:36 PM in forum: Ancient Coins
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    After 2 years found the answer to my BURNing question

    Gordian III (238-244) often is clean shaven (or, too young to have sideburns). However, some of his last coins show sideburns and this one even hints...
    Post by: Valentinian, Mar 12, 2019 in forum: Ancient Coins
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    Unusually Well-rendered for the Type

    @arizonarobin , those OP babies are special, and thank you for showing them to us. On this one the infants are not remarkable, but Fausta's hairstyle...
    Post by: Valentinian, Mar 11, 2019 in forum: Ancient Coins
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    Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak!

    Sometimes the information of the slab makes the coin seen worse than it is. I have seen "3" assigned to surfaces I actually like. I have seen "edge...
    Post by: Valentinian, Mar 10, 2019 in forum: Ancient Coins
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    Constans

    If you want to know more about VOTA coins, see my page http://augustuscoins.com/ed/VOTA/ On a linked page covering VOTA coins of the mid-fourth...
    Post by: Valentinian, Mar 9, 2019 in forum: Ancient Coins
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    New Paulina Sestertius - CONSECRATIO

    Yes. All her coins are CONSECRATIO--after her death--which suggests she died before Maximinus became emperor. That is the likely explanation for why...
    Post by: Valentinian, Mar 9, 2019 in forum: Ancient Coins