I should have posted this example for comparison's sake: http://www.stoa.org/gallery/album162/38_Constantine_I_Follis_310_13_SIC_TRE?full=1 [IMG]...
Appears from the reverse to be a SOLI INVICTO COMITI follis - These were issued for the houses of both Constantine and Licinius If you could get a...
If you have had any experience trying to work with an object on a spinning surface, it's easy to imagine how the "spike" which was to hold the...
The explanation on the http://www.classicalcoins.com/flans1.html website is the result of years of discussion and input from metallurgists and...
Quinarii continued to primarily, pretty much exclusively, feature Victory on their reverses through the lifetime of the quinarius as a circulating...
Sounds like your first incipient success is a Provincial Roman issue from Viminacium. They have a standing female allegorical personification of...
The strong tendency for Imperial AR quinarii to use the Victory reverse is a tradition which was preserved and came down from the time of the...
There are folks who collect repros - some because they can't afford the originals, some just as an adjunct to their other collections or a branch...
Many banks have already replaced their debit cards with chip cards - they were out way in advance of working chipcard readers in stores - but be...
Wait until you encounter the coins of Annam, etc. It's not by any means only China and Japan who used square-holed, cast Æ "cash"-type coinage.
In 395 and thereafter, there were almost no base-metal coins larger than an Æ3/4 This piece is typical of a "large Æ" current in 395: [IMG]...
Whether or not a "double majorina" is an impossible construction, the majorina was the new coin introduced in 348 by Constans and Constantius II....
"attri "Attribution", or at least identifying the origin of pieces in general, is a skill like any other. And like most skills, it develops...
Matt and I were quite close in middle and high school - we were in the same Boy Scout troop, rode bicycles and in later years a motorcycle (his)...
I believe somewhere the champion of "Manifest Destiny" has become confused and conflated with an age-old figure of speech. James K. Polk was the...
This Aemilian sestertius is one of my favorite pieces - legitimately rare - and I consider it a very lucky acquisition. [IMG]...
For what it's worth, generally the dividing line between "modern" (early modern, at least) and all its predecessor areas is about 1500 AD. If...
I'm not normally inclined to disagree with Doug, but it is not at all necessary to "destroy" or even degrade in any way a coin one is intending to...
It's not too unusual for countermarks not to be in any way associated with the source-area of the coin to which they were applied. They generally...
Probus is unique in the parade of Roman emperors as having the portrait menu" with the greatest number of the most varied and often elaborately...
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