Here is a coin of the famous Claudius (AD 41-54) struck at Roman Alexandria in year 12 (51/2): [ATTACH] 26 mm. 10.04 grams. Emmett 80. A diobol....
The god Dionysos favored the panther, a big cat normally depicted with spots. Here is one on a mosaic in the Archaeological Museum of Pella:...
A while ago we had a good thread on helmets: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ancient-helmet-types.297306/ Of course, very many ancient coin...
Extremely rare denomination. "IA" means 10 to 1 in place of the usual 20 to 1 (parts copper to silver). [ATTACH] Tacitus, 275-276. The previous...
Dan Clark was a dealer who bought thousands of lousy Byzantine copper coins and sorted through them. He developed a classification scheme that...
We have had many good threads on the attractive and common AE FEL TEMP REPARATIO coins, including this one recently:...
The ANA "World's Fair of Money" is happening next week in Denver. There will be large number of ancient-coin dealers attending. I'll be there...
As you might surmise from my username, I like late Roman bronze. I just completed an educational page which gives an illustrated type set of AE of...
One thing to like about late Roman coins is the possibility of getting interesting bust types. They are not all just "laureate right (or, less...
I wanted to post my page of links to another thread, but I thought I should check it first for broken links because it has been months since I...
I added eight very nice Greek silver and AE coins to my Greek page: http://augustuscoins.com/Greek.html They include a new style tetradrachm of...
This is one of the earliest AD-dated coins: [ATTACH] Special early dated coin! Pre 1500 AD. There are books on these pre 1500 AD-dated coins....
I just eight nice Constantinian era coins to my fixed-price site: http://augustuscoins.com/Tetrarchy.html at the top. They include some high...
The BBC has just posted an article on recent research on Roman concrete and why it works so well underwater:...
There are nine types of "civic coinage" attributed to Maximinus II, c. 312 AD. Here is one of the common types: [ATTACH] To learn a bit more...
Here are some greatly oversize photos of coins for sale, some Vandalic and the rest also found in North Africa and from Carthage, so likely...
I have about twenty good Roman imperial coins closing tomorrow morning (June 30, 2017) among the 900 lots in the current vauction:...
I added this to my site: http://augustuscoins.com/index.html [ATTACH] Marius, Gallo-Roman emperor for a very short period (ancient literature...
Brockages have one side an incuse version of the other. When coins were struck sometimes the coin stuck to the upper (pile) die and its obverse...
http://www.vauctions.com/ has a Triskeles auction closing next Friday morning. Many coins are going low, including a Tiberius "Tribute penny", a...
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