Very interesting coins and history around them. Thanks for sharing.
Nice!
Interesting coins and have never heard of either of those denominations.
Definitely pretty obvious tooling...unfortunately.
Not Jupiter but Zeus, note that Commodus was the last emperor to strike significant numbers of bronze drachms at Alexandria presumably due to the...
Johannes? Saw this on vcoins (sold) [ATTACH]
I branched out into Byzantine coins a couple of years ago and I have purchased maybe 40 of them in that time. I realized that my initial goal of...
Commodus: Zeus Mint of Alexandria, Egypt. Commodus (180-192. A.D.) Type: Billon Tetradrachm, 25mm, 11.06 grams Obverse: M AVΡ KOMMO ANTΩNINOC...
Pretty much all those things.
Hmmm, too bad it's fake.
Pretty cool article - thanks.
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