Nice Commagene - a very handsome specimen. Mine is very worn (RIC 89 or 90) and comes with a countermark - [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Tiberius...
A couple months ago, I got two sestertii of Lucius Verus - I really like his coins, but find them difficult to find on the low-end cheap side of...
I have a Liberalitas as of Lucius Verus with the ARMENIACVS moniker. I wonder if this was issued for distribution at a Triumph? [ATTACH]...
Valentinian on Valentine's Day? Not my type exactly... [ATTACH]
Had to revive this thread because I just got one like the OP - the reverse is particularly scarred by the Hand of Time, but it was nice to find...
Interesting and informative post. I have a corn-ear, a scruffy unica I got by accident in a lot, about 17 grades lower than the pretty one above:...
Does a heart-shaped planchet count? With Pudicitia, goddess of don't touch me. [ATTACH] Julia Domna Denarius (196-211 A.D.) Rome...
An interesting thread. As someone who has only been researching ancients online for about 3 years, this is kind of a newbie observation, but I...
Nice countermarks. I wish I could chime in here with an eagle head, but I don't have one of them. Here is a whole eagle, standing, which I've...
A very informative post - nice coins too. I've got two examples of the OP RESTITVT ORIENTIS This one looks to be base metal - or else the sand...
This thread made me look - I recently got a Volusian antoninianus from the Rome Mint (CAES) that has some peculiar reverse legend characteristics...
Thank you for the help, tenbobbit - I thought I saw a "G" as well. My Provincials knowledge is rudimentary, and especially so around the time of...
I think that lot has some potential - to be sure there are a few of those crusty LRB's I mention above that will probably not clean up very well....
Welcome to CT and ancients in general. Buying unidentified lots is one of my favorite things to do - I just posted one I bought this month for...
Thanks J.T. I do like the idea of Catfish-Mike, although I might have great difficulty coming up with an ancient coin Avatar. Catfish on the...
I like that Gallienus-Gallienus doublestrike - a zoo series to boot. The Claudius II is by far the most dramatic doublestrike in my collection -...
furryfrog02, that's a real nice Probus, in my humble opinion. It looks like some of the silvering intact - that alone put's it in my Best of Show...
That's my kind of batch, Ocatarinetabellatchitchix - hours of Attribution Fun with nothing looking like the typical "un-cleaned lot" seen so much...
Nice coin. And thank you for sharing your story - generosity and redemption. Very good things indeed.
Gosh I do love junk! Just got this in from eBay, an undescribed lot. I need help with the Roman Provincial, but I thought I'd throw in the whole...
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