Thank you! That helps.
Here is an obscure coin type: [ATTACH] 18 mm (the firm I bought it from misdescribed it as 12 mm; I'm happy it was actually larger) and 1.54...
I have added some coins to my sale site http://augustuscoins.com/index.html since I last posted here. They include drachms in celebration of...
Previous posts have proven the point that internet photographs do a poor job of giving an impression of size. Most of us put up individual photos....
@dltsrq , I'd like to private message you, but your CT settings do not allow it. Would you please contact me, perhaps at the e-mail address on my...
Lot 180, the Crispus, was one I checked and the provenance was correct. Nevertheless, the price was, in my opinion, far too high.
SSS Sel-16 does not have the halo (nimbus) on the obverse seated figure and has a figure seated with visible individual legs, whereas the coin of...
The plate coin of Zeno 949 in RIC X, plate 33, is mine: [ATTACH] 12 mm. DN [ZE]NO PE AVG [PE for PERP] Victory dragging captive left, SE CN...
What is the diameter (and weight)? I think it is SSS Sel-7 which, unlike yours, usually has the throne back curved. The reverse legend does not...
Here is a Justin II and Sophia from Carthage, year 8 = 572/3: [ATTACH] 32-30 mm. 20.11 grams. Large and heavy! Obverse has "VITA" in exergue....
The GENIO POPVLI ROMANI coins of the first and second tetrarchies are among the most common large ancient coins. They were minted at 14 mints...
Spengler and Sayles wrote Turkoman Figural Bronze Coins, volumes 1 and 2, which covered the Artuqids and Zengids. Unfortunately, Spengler took ill...
Coin photographs on the web often do not give an impression of the size of the coin. If you recognize the coin as, say, a denarius, then you know...
Here is a Gordian III of year IIII = 242/3 struck at Viminacium. [ATTACH] 28 mm. 21.24 grams. PMS COL VIM Female figure holding inscribed...
You can't leave us hanging like that! Please spell them in upper case and then tell of who they are. I'm sure 95% of us are mystified by that post!
Here is my double sestertius next to a photo I took of the Trajan Decius bust in the Capitoline Museum in Rome. [ATTACH] I have commented on CT...
Here is a coin of Justin II and Sophia (565-578) from Carthage: [ATTACH] 23-21 mm. 9.11 grams. (pretty thick) Denomination: half-follis =...
The irony of a victory over Parthia type makes that type especially interesting. Here is a VICT PART of Valerian: [ATTACH] Victory standing...
In 1988 I went to a coin show in London at the Marlborough Crest. John Cummings (a dealer) had a whole tray of Alexander drachms, presumably part...
I've had three over the years--two I got in a large lot and neither had the camel's head. They are long gone, replaced by this one, which is not...
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