Trajan is one of my favorite emperors. When it comes to portrait coins, bigger is better. This coin minted at Antioch which is slightly larger in...
I just listed on my site: http://augustuscoins.com/index.htmlhttp://augustuscoins.com/index.html eight Sasanian coins (1 AE, 7 silver). That page...
There are many different popular series of ancient coins. One that is not so popular in the west, although collected in Ukraine and Russia, is...
Visit Rome and you can walk along the Roman Forum. Here is a picture of the Forum taken last November from the Palatine Hill above the Forum....
If you want at least one Roman imperial coin of everybody you will have difficulty getting a coin of Tranquillina, wife of Gordian III who reigned...
The FEL TEMP REPARATIO soldier-spearing-fallen-horseman type is extremely common, but almost never in excellent condition for Julian II. When I...
Trajan (98-117) issued many types that make reference to historical events, including his bloodless annexation of Arabia in 106. I have a web site...
Aurelian was Roman emperor from 270-275. He inherited a coinage system with coins of very low quality silver we call "pre-reform" coins and...
I have a website about vows on Roman coins: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/VOTA/ This VOTA coin arrived recently and it of interest to me because it...
The emperor we call Maximian or Maximianus (286-305 and 306-308) had full name Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maximianus. It is common for coins of...
I have been studying coins of "The Kingdom of the Bosporus." [ATTACH] The region of the kingdom in encircled. Do not confuse the "Cimmerian"...
Magnesia ad Sipylum (in Lydia, Conventus of Smyrna) is a pretty obscure city. Domitia is a pretty rare empress. The combination makes for a pretty...
Some common coins in high grade have fetched remarkably high prices recently. (Given prices include the buyer's fee): $456 for a common Maxentius...
Here are images of some coins of the North Black Sea region and the Kingdom of the Bosporus. That kingdom included Crimea (formerly in Ukraine,...
If you collect Lincoln cents no one would think a 1914-D and 1931 plain were duplicates, similar though they are. Here is an ancient-coin...
I have a website on Byzantine coins from the Cherson mint (at Sevastopole in Crimera in the north Black Sea)....
The esylum newsletter (of the Numismatic Bibliomania Society) https://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum.html reports "On July 30, 2020 Cultural...
Here is a coin of Isaac Comnenus (1185-1191), usurper on the island of Cyprus. I like Byzantine AE but hadn't expected to seek such a rare ruler,...
Not many women ruled the Roman empire, but Irene ruled in her own name, 797-802. In the middle Byzantine centuries the wives of young male heirs...
This just arrived from CNG: [ATTACH] L. Rubrius Dossenus. 87 BC. 17.5 mm. 3.90 grams. Head of Jupiter right, head of scepter over shoulder,...
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