Two interesting details on Joe's splendid Romulus aureus: Romulus' spear has points on both ends, a feature I have also noticed on some Horseman...
An interesting coin, particularly as there seem to be no corresponding sestertii, aurei, or denarii. Nor is SALVTI AVGVSTAE standing a type of...
I have a sest. of Max. Thrax, rev. TR P III Emperor with standards, which I fished out of a junk bowl because of its light weight: 10.11g. Not...
An ancient imitation of some sort, I would suppose. Others will hopefully know more!
Apparently a hybrid of some sort, for the reverse is of the Republican moneyer L. Memmius Galeria, Roman Silver Coins Memmia 2; Crawford 313, c....
Singig's rare DACICVS As of Trajan, though not in RIC, seems to be described by Strack 349 (Budapest, Florence) and Woytek 137c (aegis on...
Not a Judaean victory type, however, but a tensa, as RIC states, that is a wagon in the circus parade for bringing symbols of the gods to the...
Doug, Correct, a die study of denarii would have been a gigantic task, and might well have shown few die links between types, since only a very...
VENERI VICTR bronze coins in my B.Litt. thesis (Oxford, 1972): Sestertii: 34 spec., 11 obv. and 13 rev. dies Ryro: new die comb., o400/r578...
At 28 mm plus a couple of mm struck off flan, the types are too large for an As but appropriate for a sestertius. Moreover this 3 Monetae type is...
If diameter approximately 25 mm, could be Plautilla's second obverse die out of three total at Thessalonica, V 2 in Touratsoglou's Thessalonica...
I have a Three Graces denarius too, acquired from Dionysos, eBay, 28 May 2014; from the same dies as the Valencia museum specimen that you...
Looks to me like Elagabalus, uncertain Syrian mint, genuine, Prieur 261A (similar style, same erroneous "consul for the fourth time" on reverse).
I'm not convinced by the supposed undertype, RC. Could just be die faults, in my opinion. If overstruck on Sabina, one would also expect remnants...
I think that is not a snake in the architrave or frieze of Maxentius' temple of Roma, but rather a wavy line with pellets under each crest and in...
I've been capitalizing As for decades, so already in my first article on the new Nilus As of Septimius Severus in Num. Chron. 1970; don't remember...
Indeed, an As not a dupondius! I think I was misled by your avatar.
What a chance that your first Roman coin turned out to be a dupondius of Severus Alexander! Two of my earliest Roman coins were also from reigns...
I regret the weak date (COS III), but find the condition of David's rarity quite acceptable overall. RIC pl. 29, 324 illustrates only the rev. of...
Doug, Your first three denarii are Eastern, but your fourth, MARTI PACIFERO, is mint of Rome, wouldn't you agree?
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