[ATTACH] 32 mm. 28.95 grams. Janus/Prow. Atilius Saranus, 155 BC. ex Vecchi Auction 3, lot 388. With Pegasi ticket for $175. [Here, $49 SOLD + $3...
One thing to like about later Roman coins is the variety of bust types not found on issues of the first and second centuries. The second coin...
I just put these on the main page of my site: http://augustuscoins.com/index.html One is a rare AE4 coin of Valentinian III and the other a rare...
One of the most famous ancient coin types is the so-called tribute penny of Tiberius (AD 14-37) because of its association with the New Testament...
Maximinus Thrax, Roman emperor 235-238, didn't issue many different types. The most desirable type among his denarii is the VOTIS type: [ATTACH]...
I added Greek coins to my Greek page: http://augustuscoins.com/Greek.html I reduced prices on almost all the tetrarchal (Diocletian and later)...
Late Roman copper coins usually have mintmarks that abbreviate the name of the mint. Some are clear abbreviations such as "LVG" for LVGdunum (=...
I have been adding coins to my site: http://augustuscoins.com/index.html Some are quite remarkable, including a very nice Johannes AE4, a very...
This coin is pretty similar to a denarius of Emesa: IMP CAE L SEP SEV PERT AVG COS II, head right, laureate SAECVLI FELICIT around moon and seven...
A "double strike" is not the same as an "overstrike". Overstrike refers to a new type struck on a flan that was a coin of an older type. We had a...
Byzantine copper coins are often overstruck on previous coin types and the quality control was often so bad that the undertype can be identified,...
I just added a variety of ancient coins to my site: http://augustuscoins.com/index.html Trajan sestertius AQUA TRAIANA, Licinius II with an...
I have two well-known types of Greek coins from Cilicia for sale and two that are rare types. [ATTACH] The famous Baal/lion-attacking bull stater...
What is the most common ancient-coin type? In the 1980s I used to think it was the Constantinian era "GLORIA EXERCITVS, two soldiers and two...
The finest ancient-coin sale catalogs produced include Triton catalogs (from CNG) and NAC (Numismatica Ars Classica, in Switzerland). NAC has the...
I have been adding coins to my site: http://augustuscoins.com/index.html and just now I added two nice Greek silver fractions to the page (at the...
Justinian minted folles at Antioch with a great variety of mintmarks. At one time, I had assembled five distinctly different mintmarks for that...
Here is a remarkable coin with four [EDIT: five] types of seafood! [ATTACH] 27 mm. Thick (5 mm). 23.84 grams. A hemilitra. Akragas in Sicily, c....
We had a nice thread on wolf-and-twins coins which emphasized Roman Republican and imperial pieces....
I added eight nice Roman and Roman provincial and Greek oriental coins to my sale site: http://augustuscoins.com/Valentinian.html Here are three:...
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