It may be a "survivor effect". In desperate situations everybody prays. For the dead it didn't work, but they are not around to denigrate...
I found a link to the original article "New Approaches to the ‘Plague of Justinian’":...
Here is a link to a news report with the title "We May Have Underestimated The First Known Outbreak of Bubonic Plague"...
I agree with everyone else. It is a really nice group! For me the top coin is the Octavian. What a moment in history!
Here are a well-matched pair, the first official and the second an imitation of the same type. [ATTACH] Roman Republican denarius. 20-19 mm....
Tell us the diameter (which is not visible in a photo unless one already knows the type) and weight and show the other side, all of which help in...
Yes, that time period is correct. I love how some Roman coins can be so narrowly dated.
[ATTACH] Numerian, after his death 21 mm. 3.17 grams. Struck Nov. 284 - spring 285. This is easy to date because it is after the death of...
Hoover's "Handbook" series is intended to be complete for the series discussed, whereas SNG's only illustrate individual collections. Hoover's...
If that piece cost less than thousands of dollars, it is modern and the other bidders knew it. Ancient medallions are expensive.
Be honest now, what would you rather have, that OP medallion or this sculpture that the New York Times reports...
I watched it and it is very good about silver medallions of the period.
There is a webpage on "PROFECTIO" types: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/PROFECTIO/ The page has a list of emperors who issued types with that...
Here I am, telling you how to post threads and I can't seem to fix my own! I can't get rid of the [ATTACH] (missing image) symbol. It has the...
I recommend CoinTalk to friends who join but don't know how to begin a thread. One asked me what to do and here is what I wrote one of them today:...
Time to open the snowplow business for the winter! Make money to spend on more gold coins!
Here is a new webpage on coins of Panticapaeum: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Pan/Pan.html The famous "Bosporus strait" is the narrow waterway...
Academia.edu is a great site for having academic articles about ancient coins. It sends me emails when articles I might be interested in are...
Your Geta is a first-issue type with his first name beginning with "L" (Lucius). For the story of Geta's coin portraits, see here:...
Licinius I ?
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