I haven't seen many early M II D from London. Those are lovely. His redcuced sized output is more common. Maximinus II Daia, Follis Obv:– IMP...
I don't seem to add many coins to my Probus collection any more. I don't seem to find coins that I don't have that I can afford. As such I have...
I have a penchant for Mars coins for purely egotistical reasons. It was a coin depicting Mars that allowed me to find ancients. I added a new Mars...
Don't worry. I don't intend to inflict the dozen or so various FEL TEMPs that I have added to my pile in the last month or so but thought that one...
Septimius Severus denarius Obv:- [IMP CAE L SEP S]EV PERT AVG COS II, Laureate head right Rev:- VICT AVG, Victory seated left holding wreath and...
This page illustrates that very point. http://probvs.net/probvs/busts/b-bus-bustforms.html
Here is my CONS III [IMG]
My chart is for the output of Rome. Your coin is not from Rome. Your coin is from Ticinum. There is actually a T before the XXI in exe which is...
I thought that it might be worth while trying to explain what difference the thunderbolt makes when compared to a wreath in this context. Each...
My mistake. Re-reading I can see my confusion.
I have to disagree with Bings attribution. The coin has R Wreath B in exe rather then Thunderbolt.
There are often cases where the emperor appears to replave a deity/god/personification on coins where we see emperor as ...... In these cases this...
Nothing special but I like the type. I didn't have one from Trier. Doug had illustrated a couple from Trier and Amiens and I have been keeping my...
I stumbled across another common Licinius from Trier but a cuirassed type. It was too cheap to walk away from. Obv:– IMP LICINIVS P F AVG,...
How about a Lugdunum? Obv:– IMP C AVRELIANVS AVG, Radiated cuirassed bust right Rev:– PACATOR ORBIS, Sol walking left, right hand raised, left...
I have a couple of Emesa - POMA (two different obverse dies, same reverse die) the second of which arrived this week. [IMG] [IMG] Alexandrian...
I did have a small collection of Cnut pennies in my English silver coinage collection before I shifted across to ancients. I sadly parted with...
Nice. All the FEL TEMPs are varieties are ones I don't have. Very nice group.
Two lovely coins there Randy and Doug's coin has a gorgeous portrait. This gets down to the guts of how/why we use RIC. If we look at this...
Come on folks. Who is going to take on Doug's challenge of naming (and illustrating) the range of Victory types?
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