@Claudivs , that is a nice representative group of ancient coins. My favorite is the whopping Justinian, but the others are interesting too.
The page devoted to the AE types of Valentinian III is here: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ricix/ValentinianIII.html Few AE coins of Valentinian...
Last night I made myself a dish of mint chocolate chip ice cream with half a banana sliced up on it, coated lightly in Hershey's Chocolate syrup,...
Eleutheria = Freedom, or, as @GinoLR wrote, "independence". I don't know about Greek coins, but there are coins of the Roman provincial period at...
Here is another one: [ATTACH] 21-20 mm. IVLIA MAMAEA AVGVSTA COLONIA BOSTRA SNG ANS 6 1231-1236. Kindler, The Coinage of Bostra, 40. Bought in...
If you write a vcoins dealer and offer a lower amount and it is accepted, they can mark it "sold" without changing the price to the actual price....
Elegant and modest. I have wondered why Trier issued a "loins draped" version of Genius, when Genius was naked elsewhere.
@Cucumbor , that is a super group! I'm happy to see that someone else thinks they make a neat series to collect. If anyone wonders about the...
Constantine II and Constantius II were brothers. Their names are so similar it can be hard to distinguish their coins if the legends are not...
Nice group! For more about the nine GENIO types, here is an educational page on them: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/tetrarchy/GENIO.html This...
I think that may be for the camel-alone type, which often comes well-struck on a full flan, but the companion piece rarely has the quality we...
Diocletian's coin reform of c. 294 initiated the very common GENIO POPVLI ROMANI type at fourteen mints. The type was replaced at central mints by...
Here is a DE SARM of Marcus Aurelius: [ATTACH] Denarius. 20-18 mm. 3.25 grams. M ANTONINVS AVG GERM SARM Laureate head right TRP XXXI IMP VIII...
Here is a page with some information about coins of the Kingdom of the Bosporus: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Bosporus/ It includes short...
The coin offered has a pellet below the bust, and according to the seller, the RIC on-line example "does not include a single pellet on the...
It's an outstanding group. My favorites are the Septimius Severus AFRICA sestertius and the 6-figure Byzantine gold of Romanus IV. I have the...
Here is an unusual reverse type from Phoenicia: [ATTACH] AE17-16. 4.13 grams. Berytos (Beruit), Phoenicia. Struck 87/6 - 82/1 BC [Hoover]...
Here is a page on barbarous radiates: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/imit/BarbarousRadiates.html They are far more numerous than dealer offerings...
The original article https://academic.oup.com/past/advance-article/doi/10.1093/pastj/gtab024/6427314 says "The recent ‘revisionist’ literature,...
The whole group is wonderful, but I call the attention of readers to the A trihemiobol is a very small coin and to have it look great in a photo...
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