Many thanks. More digging required I think.
Just added another Galerius Tet to the hoard..... This one has a much more refined porttrait than the previous one. Galerius Billon tetradrachm...
Trajan AR Tetradrachm. Tyre, Phoenicia. Obv: AVTOKP KAIC NEP TPAIANOC CEB GERM DAK, laureate head right, club & eagle below. Rev: DHMAPC EX IC...
I have gone away from my collecting and knowledge base AGAIN!! This time as the title suggests I have bought a couple of coins from Troas,...
I have posted elsewhere with pretty horrible examples of double die matches two the two Victory types to Doug's coin above but also posted this...
Cappadocian Kingdom, Tetradrachm, In the Name of the Seleukid King, Antiochos VII Silver tetradrachm Obv:– Diademed head of the Seleukid King...
Aeolis, Myrina, Tetradrachm, Mid 2nd Century B.C. Obv:– Laureate head of Apollo right, hair braided, ribbons flowing behind. Rev:– MYRINAION...
No. They knew the earth was a globe and the ancient greeks calculated the circumference.
Julian II DN FL CL IVLI-ANVS NOB C SPES REI-PVBLICE SMK gamma Cyzicus RIC VIII Cyzicus 118 I think
Am certainly struggling with that as an issue. I recognised this obverse legend as being a rare variety and the price was less than a third of...
Very, very nice Steve. Welcome to hang out any time...
Well now this is kind of embarrassing..... I was scooting through my trays and have found I have yet another example in there....especially as it...
The standard obverse legend for this series is IMP CAE L SEP SEV PERT AVG COS II so this coin varies in a few ways from this standard legend.
I don't normally buy double die matches but do sometimes make exceptions. I know that some people don't think that they add anything to a...
A new arrival. Nothing rare but another pseuso random purchase. I was attracted to this coin by the details on the Genius. It has a very...
I don't believe it to be ancient at all. I have seen it somewhere before and believe it to be from crude modern dies. I am still searching for the...
The Probus is absolutely fine. It just suffers slightly from a slightly uneven strike. I am ambivalent about the Caracalla.
GAL VAL MAXIMIANVS NOB CAES
Steve, That is a glorious Galerius. I absolutely love it. Martin
It is a really beautiful type. Nice examples one and all.
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