Amazon lists this as unavailable. It is available, but you have to buy it directly from CNG: Handbook of Greek Coinage
I have a few volumes of SNG, mostly of obscure collections. SNG is definitely the gold standard for Greek coin catalogs. But as @tibor wrote,...
A labarum is a standard (or vexillum) with a Chi-Rho on it. Here's one of my favorites: [ATTACH] Constantius II Caesar, A.D. 324-337 Augustus,...
This reverse is describe as "legionary eagle between two vexilla." They look like standards to me. Is there a difference between a standard and a...
Could it be Ptolemaic?
Very nice coin, @Struck7. Congratulations. In the late 3rd/early 4th century there were many, many bronze coins with reverses depicting the...
[ATTACH] Constantine I ("the Great) Augustus, A.D. 307-337 AE Nummus, Treveri (Trier) mint, A.D. 307-308 RIC 781 Obv: IMP CONSTANTINVS P F AVG...
Actually, when I saw the obverse portrait, the first thing I thought of was Caracalla. Like Elagabalus, was also called Antoninus on his coins.
I used to copy and paste photos, and then there was a glitch in CT, and for while the photos would show up while you were writing the post but...
I had a similar question about coins from the "Mercury Collection" that I won in a CNG auction, so I wrote the company and asked if they could...
Now that I think of it, if that's a bust of Salus on the obverse as RIC claims, why is it attributed to either of them?
I received the coin below from CNG. It came listed as Julia Augusta (Livia), Augusta, A.D. 14-29. Wasn't Julia the daughter of Augustus and wife...
If nothing else, the peaceful transfer of power from one emperor to the next was good for the Empire.
Ahh, that makes sense. I'm much to cheap to spend 420 Euros on a coin like my Balbinus.
How did you check that? I'm pretty sure that I've owned it for about 3 or 4 years. I think I bought it from a VCoins dealer.
So it looks like mine is a Type IV. I did not know this.[ATTACH]
So they're both repros, right? Because my Balbinus, which if I remember correctly, cost me around $300 - $350, looks suspiciously like yours:...
Could that be the outer edge of the die?
You can see this transition in his brother, too. Geta as a child, ca. 198: [ATTACH] As a young adult, ca. 211: [ATTACH]
It took me many years of collecting before I finally broke down and got coins of these two. The Pupienus was part of a lot of silver coins, so by...
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