The full name of Macrinus includes OPELLlVS and he took also the name SEVERVS which those letters abbreviate. It is Macrinus.
Some anonymous folles ["Class I"] have been attributed to the Byzantine emperor Nicephorus III (1078-1081). He has one other follis type that is not...
Centering is part of the strike. It cannot be a perfect strike unless it is very well-centered.
I think it includes everything Pausanias saw on his grand tour, organized by city. He wrote in the late second century AD. I don't know where Apollo...
F. Imhoof-Blumer and P. Gardner wrote Ancient coins Illustrating Lost Masterpieces of Ancient Art: A numismatic Commentary on Pausanias, which was...
Another thread has considered the meaning of FDC, fleur de coin, flower of the die. That coin fits the bill, doesn't it?
I wonder if the scale used gives only results as a multiple of .05 so weight like 4.53 could not be displayed. 4.55 is a bit heavy but maybe it was...
@the professor , I have a page about selling ancient coins: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/numis/howtos.html If you have further questions, you can...
They look fine to me. They do not look at all like fourrees. However, here have been very deceptive forgeries of late Roman gold as Sayles notes in...
@calcol , it may be that the seller also sells off of eBay, say at shows. When he goes to a show with his stock he tells eBay the coins are...
"L" is the Egyptian symbol for "year". "A" is 1 in Greek. So your coin was struck in year 1 of his reign under the Egyptian calendar, which rolled...
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