Late Roman AE is among the least expensive of all Roman coins and the number of types is limited so you can hope to fill out most of a set. Here...
I have put many Roman provincial coins on my page: http://augustuscoins.com/index.html From a different series, here is a super Licinius II:...
Almost four years ago I wrote a web site http://augustuscoins.com/ed/interesting/SECVRITAS.html on the meaning of SECVRITAS, a common term on...
SNG France 4, Alexandrie I, Auguste-Trajan. 8 1/2" by 12" white dust jacket. 1319 photographed coins of Roman Alexandria, Egypt, in sylloge...
We normally think of Zeus Ammon as on coins of Egypt. Here is Zeus Ammon on a cute hemiobol from Caesarea in Cappadocia. It is 16-15 mm. [ATTACH]...
Edited April 28: Half-price sale! PRICES LOWERED! Now 50% (instead of 30%) off. World Coin books: Low countries Pocket Guides (all of these...
I just completed a new educational web page on coins of Maxentius that use the words Adfini, Cognat, Patri, and Socero....
I just added three of the quarter-follis denomination issued only at Sisica and for only a short while around AD 306. They have the usual follis...
Extremely rare AE2 of Verina, wife of Leo I, 457-475 According to ERIC II, the 167th most common Roman person on coins. That's rare! 20 mm....
I have just updated my site by adding coins and I reduced prices on almost every coin on the main page: http://augustuscoins.com/index.html and...
In ancient coins there are "types" and within types, varieties. There are no rules (only, as a ghostbuster would day, guidelines) to make the...
Septimius Severus, 193-211. Tetradrachm stuck at Laodicea. A big coin at 27 mm. Prier "The Syro-Phoenician Tetradrachms" 1148 [possibly the same...
[ATTACH] Parthia Phraates IV, 38-2 BC tetradrachm 28-27 mm Sellwood 52 CΠC in the upper middle field (the precise date) Sellwood 51.19 Large...
Many of us wonder what theme we should collect. Those of us with lots of experience agree there is no "should" to it. But, when you want to focus...
Here is a Hadrian sestertius of a good type: RESTVTITVTORI ORBIS TERRARVM Hadrian raising the restored world. [ATTACH] The picture captures the...
Many Gemini lots did not sell. 148 of the first 443 ancients are on the unsold list: http://www.geminiauction.com/unsold.asp?utm_source=Copy of...
I moved my site a few weeks ago to here: http://augustuscoins.com/index.html The old one has shut down, so please bookmark the new site. You...
Here are two nice folles of Diocletian (AD 284-305) for sale: [ATTACH] 27-25 mm. London mint. RIC London 28a. "c. 303 onward" ex Stoffel...
Diocletian introduced the silver argenteus denomination c. 294. [ATTACH] This one clearly states its value in silver with its reverse type...
If you have an ancient coin to sell, how would you price it? One eBay seller has often been mentioned on CT as listing coins for ten times their...
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