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That's a nice one, @David Atherton! I like the brassy highlights on the devices. That city is indeed off the beaten path. I wrote a little article...
Thanks for the kind words, everybody! Lovely patina on that one! It's harder to come by than you might think. It dates from AD 143-145 and was...
[IMG] Agrippina I, wife of Germanicus, 14 BC - AD 33 Roman AE Sestertius 27.92 gm, 34.8 mm, 7 h Rome mint. Struck under Claudius, 42-54 AD Obv:...
[IMG] TGIFF, everybody!! Today we're going to talk about obverse legends and why using them to date coins has its pitfalls. For example, we have...
That's a nice addition to your collection of Flavian provincials. Imperial issues are important, of course, but they tell less than half the...
One of these elephant carpentum sestertii of Faustina II. [ATTACH]
Were that my coin, I'd have cracked it out of the slab immediately upon its arrival in the mail. It's not actually worth anything extra being in...
Venus here is on the scrawny side, but one of my biggest scores of 2021 was this long-sought-after denarius, the VENERI VICTRICI reverse type...
My favorite part of Frank's blog post is when he's out of town, meets up with an old girlfriend for dinner, and his wife still picks him up at the...
Hadrian?
Don't worry about posting coins you've already posted before, @dougsmit! Does anyone ever say to themselves, "Well, I saw a sunset once; I don't...
I wish this photographed better, but it doesn't even look good in hand. From a large group lot: [IMG] Era of Constantine, 4th Century AD....
What an interesting Felicitas on the reverse, @Cucumbor! Her face looks like a lioness! Perhaps ancient Roman goddesses were into furry cosplay!...
Very fun! I have an example of the Julia Domna coin, too, struck with the same obverse die as yours but with a different reverse die. [IMG]...
Lovely example, @savitale! This a chance to show off this Florian ... [IMG] Florian, AD 276. Roman billon Aurelianus, 3.28 g, 21.2 mm, 12 h....
Steve Benner published this interesting CoinWeek article about bugs on ancient coins. From the article: [IMG] "My cursory search yielded nine...
Here you go! [IMG] Maximus, Caesar AD 235/6-238. Roman orichalcum sestertius, 21.54 g, 31.5 mm, 12 h. Rome, 3rd emission, late AD 236-237. Obv:...
Thank you, @maridvnvm. That was a helpful review!
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