I have the "Collection Claudius Côte" sale "Monnies de Tarente" offered by Ratto in 1929. There are many varieties of the "boy on a dolphin" basic...
My preference is to give the largest and smallest "diameters" to the nearest mm. If I say a coin is "21-19 mm," you know it is slightly out of round...
For Maximinus, year 4 (TRP IIII) is the rarest of that type. Your example is outstanding. Here is my page on the coins of Maximinus Thrax with...
and make the point very well. They really do look alike, don't they!
I added some denarii of Caracalla (196-217) to my site, Augustus Coins (at the top): http://augustuscoins.com/index.html Look closely at them. Their...
Roman Coins and Their Values, by David Sear had, through the fourth single-volume edition, for each emperor a table of dates for all the TRP numbers,...
Yes. In RIC volume IV, part I, on pages 248-252, there are 8 antoninianus types with the same explicit year-18 legend. Look for the TRP XVIII. It...
We had a good thread on Caracalla a while back: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/my-favorite-roman-portrait-caracalla.323539/ The thrust of this...
I got this argenteus from the recent Leu web auction 5. [ATTACH] Constantius I, 293-306 18 mm. 2.87 grams. Struck as Caesar. CONSTANTI-VS CAESAR...
I started this thread by announcing a web site on Byzantine anonymous folles. http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ByzAnon/ Almost all the site is unchanged...
The scale (balance) on your Republican coin is wonderful! I look forward to the writeup. Any AEQVITAS can have a crude balance: [ATTACH] Philip I,...
Here is a slabbed Vetranio (March 25 - Dec. 25, 350), less than one year. Heritage just sold one for $384:...
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