I too have a crossed cornucopiae type I was unable to fully attribute. Below is a photo and my best guess: [ATTACH] Caracalla Æ 19 (218-222...
Interesting write-up. Here is my early Octavian, with what might be sideburns or slight beard. From Vcoins listing: "Note that Octavian is...
Thinks have been a bit slow on the low-grade eBay unattributed lots front, but last week I got a lot of Byzantine AEs that I thought I'd share....
Lefty Claudius with Apollo reverse (but SALVS legend): [ATTACH] Claudius II Gothicus Æ Antoninianus (268-270 A.D.) Antioch Mint IMP C...
Nice sestertius, hotwheelsearl. I am astonished at what nice big portraits you can get for a low price. I think this is my first sestertius -...
A very informative post. I have but one VENVS FELIX type, a scruffy one from Rome, I think, with an apple the size of a cantaloupe: [ATTACH]...
One of my favorite crowns - how many coins actually say "Gaul(e)" on them? A pileus cap, palm branch, a couple goddesses standing around...
Great coins and write up, Donna. Unfortunately I do not have a Gallienus legionary critter, but it did put me in mind of this new one from...
Keeping it in the family, a Volusian: [ATTACH] Volusian - Æ Antoninianus (251-253 A.D.) Antioch Mint - Officina 4 IMP C V AF GAL VEND VOLVSIANO...
I know very little about coins from this part of the world, but a while back I got a silver drachm of Hermaios that, like another one I had,...
This looks like a fun lot to research - and a good price too. I like to buy ancients in lots like this - it is affordable and fun to figure out....
My first, purchased 1987, and I still have it. MARS PATER denarius of Septimius Severus: [ATTACH]
My two most recent middle AEs. I guessed the Faustina was a dupondius based on size and a somewhat yellowish color. [ATTACH] Aelius (Caesar) Æ...
Here's an old edition of Meditations (or "His Conversations" as it was called in this edition (London, 1701)): [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] And...
Here is Janus in a temple on a sestertius issued by Commodus. I wonder if the image on my coin is the arched doorway part of the temple (to the...
I think I might have the sestertius version of that denarius: [ATTACH] Faustina II Æ Sestertius (145-161 A.D.) Rome Mint FAVSTINAE...
Congrats on your first ancient. Here's another Aequitas with the VI like RC's: [ATTACH] Gallienus Æ Antoninianus (261-262 A.D.) Rome...
Great coin, RC. The condition looks quite acceptable to me, especially given the rarity. I have an unappetizing Salus-standing dupondius for...
Kind of hard to see, but there's Pegasus on the reverse of this Parthian AE: [ATTACH] Parthia Æ Tetrachalkon Mithradates III / IV...
Half a lion, strolling (or standing?) with the personification of Africa - [ATTACH] Septimius Severus Æ Sestertius (194 A.D.) Rome Mint L SEPT...
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