Fascinating and educational write-up, @Ocatarinetabellatchitchix! Way cool! [IMG] Faustina the Younger was the OG Mater Castrorum! [IMG]...
[IMG] Happy Friday, everyone! Today I'm going to explore a large issue of Faustina the Younger which dominated her coinage in the early 150s AD:...
Congratulations, @ambr0zie, that's a very nice portrait! I'm glad it was a good deal, too. Here's my most photogenic Max Thrax: [IMG] Maximinus...
Yes, it means "of the Gadareans." @GinoLR is exactly right. I have only one coin of this city. It features Faustina II, of course. That's Zeus...
My favorite is this one with Isis. [IMG] Claudius II Gothicus, AD 268-270. Roman billon antoninianus, 4.07 g, 22.4 mm, 5 h. Antioch, officina...
Hilarious!!! It looks like Cornificia and Fadilla opened up a can ... [IMG] of BIG SISTERS BE GONE!!!! [IMG] This, of course, is what it's...
Very nice, @Collecting Nut, with a lot of interesting detail on the cuirass. I have a fair number of Constantine II coins, but many are not...
Very nice coin with a fascinating history! Congratulations!
An auction in 2010 and it didn't even mention the tooling. Very disappointed in Peus for this.
I would laugh at this attempt to increase the technical grade of this middle bronze of Faustina the Younger if it didn't make me so angry....
A very legitimate way of creating provenance for one's collection is to catalog it, photograph it, and publish it, such as Henry Clay Lindgren,...
The British Museum is seeking a keeper of coins and medals. :wideyed:
More than 8,000 Roman Imperial coins from the Bibliothèque nationale de France have been integrated into Online Coins of the Roman Empire. This is...
That's wonderful!!! The more Faustina Fans, the better! Here are my examples of your coins. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Sometime in the mid 1980s. I lost all my records in a computer crash ca. 2003.
Nice one. Here's my PAX AVG. Kevin in flan quality control was drunk that day. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Lovely new acquisition for your collection, @Amit Vyas! It is well-struck and the toning is marvelous. I enjoy a Gordy ant every now and then,...
My first ancient was this tribute penny: [ATTACH] Tiberius, AD 14-37. Roman AR Denarius, 3.87 g, 18.5 mm, 5 h. Lugdunum, AD 16-37. Obv: TI...
I'll play: [IMG] Troas, Sigeion, c. 335 BC. Greek Æ 12.2 mm, 2.37 g, 5 h. Obv: Head of Athena facing slightly right, wearing triple crested...
Saturday night and I'm grooving on this denarius I purchased from our very own @PeteB of Akropolis Ancient Coins. It honors Julia Domna as Mater...
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