Thanks for the information! I had heard about that Spink BMC reprint before, but had forgotten the details.
Jamesicus wrote: "I recently purchased the BMCRE, vol II, Spink 2005 edition because of some reviews by CT members who reported that it contained...
Doug, The consulship was assumed for a calendar year or, under the empire, often for just part of a year. So if Niger indeed assumed his second...
Cohen 195 claims there is a head only coin in the Paris collection, but I'm betting that it is just a misstruck or misdescribed draped or draped...
Not only does the style appear Eastern, but the occurrence of this type in Roman style seems to me highly doubtful. For a Roman specimen RIC 170...
Given this time frame, it must seem very likely that Septimius and Caracalla's last official imperatorial acclamation was accorded for their...
Regarding Septimius' later acclamations as imperator, Andrew Burnett concluded, as DCCR states above, "All we can say at the moment is that, for...
COS II is Septimius' title, not Domna's, so it would appear that this rev. type was intended for obverses of the emperor not the empress.
Early in 217 (TR P XX), each of Caracalla's rev. types was slightly changed. For the Diana in biga type, the change was from charging bulls,...
The following long extract comes from Andrew Burnett, Zela, Acclamations, Caracalla - and Parthia?, Institute of Classical Studies, University of...
I don't think, however, that the mintmark FPLG on RIC VII, p. 183, Lyons 103, of Constantius II, means that it must have been struck before the...
The FELICITAS REIPVBLICAE type for Magnentius is recorded with mintmarks PLG and SLG by Bastien in the second edition of his Monnayage de...
Find spots of the relevant coins would help, but we usually lack that information!
Pellinor's Domna sestertius with Caracalla rev. is interesting, but probably unofficial, because the style is a little crude as dougsmit said, and...
I would say the ANS spec. is probably official and struck, while yours is a "cast in Gaul" deriving from a similar official coin from the same...
Finn, Yes, emperors could assume honorary magistracies in Greek or Latin cities. Life of Hadrian: Hadrian assumed various honorary magistracies...
My dates for these two VENVS CAELESTIS types: Standing, always with star in field, from beginning to end of 220 and part way through 221....
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