I added this coin to my site just now. http://augustuscoins.com/index.html It is an early Christian type issued by the first emperor to use a...
I have an educational site on VOTA coins: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/VOTA/ I added this interesting sestertius of Antoninus Pius to the...
I recently bought Sear's Roman Coins and Their Values volume V. I have RIC, so I didn't need it but thought it would be good to complete the set....
It has been a long time since CT has had a thread on FEL TEMP REPARATIO "hut" types. This one came today: [ATTACH] 21 mm. SMKB for Cyzicus...
Some anonymous folles ["Class I"] have been attributed to the Byzantine emperor Nicephorus III (1078-1081). He has one other follis type that is...
F. Imhoof-Blumer and P. Gardner wrote Ancient coins Illustrating Lost Masterpieces of Ancient Art: A numismatic Commentary on Pausanias, which was...
I have a page of inexpensive, $5 - $15, ancient coins. http://augustuscoins.com/inexpensive.html I gradually add to it and over time many sold...
I adde this massive coin to my site: http://augustuscoins.com/Byzantine.html [ATTACH] Justinian, 527-565. Massive 40-38 mm. 21.24 grams. Year...
A coin image on a computer screen need not bear any relation to its size in real life. If you think you know the size of the coin and don't pay...
I added another mintmark to my site on Justinian's mintmarks at Antioch. http://augustuscoins.com/ed/interesting/Justinian.html The coin is...
Our member @ominus1 sent me a gift (not a Secret Santa present) of a display device which makes a coin seem to be suspended in air. Thank you,...
I have a ancient-coin-collecting friend who is moving to Kalispell, Montana. He asked me if I knew anyone who collected there and I had to say I...
In the third century Prior to Gallienus Roman imperial coins did not have mintmarks identifying the mint. We can distinguish eastern mint coins of...
According to this article https://www.coinsweekly.com/en/News/Leu-Numismatik-AG-Robbed-on-Christmas-Eve/4?&id=5819 526 lots of ancient coins...
I wanted, and got, coin books for Christmas. Here is one spectacular book bought from Charles Davis (of vcoins). Portraits: 500 years of Roman...
I added some coins to my site: http://augustuscoins.com/index.html including a scarce early Christian chi-rho (on the Constantinian page) and...
Three years ago we had a thread on Santa Claus look-alikes: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/santa-claus.272165/ Surely we have some new coins...
Here is one of the earliest Republican coins, Crawford 17/1a, dated to 273-270 BC: [ATTACH] 19-18 mm, 6.02 grams. Litra. Helmeted head of...
Diocletian (284-305) reformed the coinage c. 293-4 by introducing some new denominations, including the "follis" (possibly known as a "nummis" in...
Some collectors think the tetrarchs look a lot alike, and sometimes that is true. But, sometimes they can be easily distinguished. Can you tell...
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