Case in point: [ATTACH] Constantine I ("the Great") A.D. 307-337 Cyzicus mint, A.D. 307 RIC 26b Obv: FL VAL CONSTANTINVS NOB CAES Rev: GENIO AVGG...
Here's the first Christian symbol on a common coin, RIC VII Ticinum 45 from 316 AD. So you have 3 very early examples from Ticinum: one...
Oops! I didn't realize that we were supposed to wait until the 17th. This is the first time I've participated. My surprise arrived last night, and...
If that is your hope, I suggest you bring a couple of lower grade coins, too. When people realize that they can buy a 1600-year-old coin for less...
Sorry about the poor quality. I picked this coin out of a lot of uncleaned LRBs. According to RIC, this coin was minted in Rome. But now, after...
The realism of Athena's face on the center coin of the bottom row is really striking.
As the English "National Treasure" law clearly illustrates, both cultural heritage and profits can coexist. It's just a question of governments...
Beautiful crinoids. What's the first one?
Right. It's really easy to stop collecting ancients after just one or two coins. You won't get addicted. Trust me on this.
This coin was prized because of its purity. It widely accepted throughout Greece, Asia Minor and the Near East. So it was used mainly to meet...
My hobby is writing irrelevant and irritating comments in discussion groups.
Here's a scruffy AE2 that we haven't seen yet: [ATTACH] (Bronze) AE II Antoich mint, A.D. 393-395 Obv: D N HONORIVS P F AVG Rev: GLORIA ROMANORVM...
Valentinian III reigned for 30 years, so his coins are plentiful. Unfortunately, with most of these little AE4s from this era, it's impossible to...
I'd say tooling is an attempt to change things or add things that are no longer there. When the scratches are more or less restricted to the...
I have two that I'd like to show off, both pulled from lots of uncleaned coins many years ago. First, from my CtG collection, this little 1/4...
Sometimes the dot is part of a mint mark. Sometimes it's a control mark. On rare occasions it's used to separate words in an inscription. And...
Perhaps it was a deliberate attempt to model a specific Genius after Jupiter?
Engraver's error or more likely, a filled die. I've seen many variations of the ·TS·A· mint mark with different combinations of the dots missing.
That dot is probably an artifact left behind by a compass used to arrange the letters of the reverse inscription in a circle. It is not considered...
Many of the earlier GENIO types depicted the Genius with his loins draped. This is particularly the case with the GENIO POP ROM series from...
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