Thanks, Donna. I think this book has been cited before on CoinTalk. I would be very interested to have a look at a printed copy!
TI N means grandson of Tiberius, QVINQ that Caligula was functioning as duovir quinquennalis, a special local magistrate elected only at five year...
Marsyas Mike, Could you tell us the author's name, title of article, and name of periodical for the long listing of Faustina's coinage in your...
Maybe a second specimen will turn up some day! Septimius' bridge type, linked to above by Alegandron, was for centuries only known on asses...
The Caracalla coin, showing emperors and soldiers crossing a bridge of boats, is a unique small medallion (no S C) formerly in the Vatican...
Most people agree that all of the latest gold and silver coins of Augustus and the entire gold and silver coinage of Tiberius were struck at...
Tentatively I would think "unofficial", mainly because of the crude obv. portrait that you point out. Hard to decide on the rev. legend, since...
No, the only bust types listed for the old RIC 777, p. 439, are a, b, d, and e, not c. The bust types a-j listed below RIC 777 in Sulla's post...
Laureate cuirassed r, with three obv. dies, is the scarcer of the two bust types for sestertii of this type. The commoner bust type, represented...
Zumbly, You wrote: "I'd find it difficult to use "panther attacking a bison" in my description when the 5th animal from the left, clearly...
Limes refers to my Forum text of 2014; here is that full text. It will be seen that what Limes calls the standard description of the LAETITIA...
I'd say your second explanation is correct: the engravers were instructed to depict the seven animals specified by Cassius Dio and by the Saecular...
Bing's coin is also fairly rare without P P at the end of the rev. legend; RIC 8 correctly says "Rare". BMC p. 224 note lacks an example, so cites...
Looks like both Faustinas might even be from the same obv. die? Does the metal show through anywhere on either specimen? If so red = As, yellow =...
Indeed, Philip's coins of Zeugma were probably struck at Antioch. Butcher, Roman Syria, p. 464: "Like most of the other coinages of Roman Syria...
Unfortunately I haven't published much, and the articles are not collected. Detailed summaries of some of my ideas, however, are available on...
Blake, As far as I know yours is the fourth known middle bronze of Albinus, since the BM has two FORTVNAE REDVCI examples, one very fine,...
It would be interesting to see one or both of the original old tickets for the Naville coins.
King 33 cites the BM spec. (in their coll. not photofile as you say) and Paris like RIC, plus a third in Arethusa 3, 25 Nov. 1994, lot 195, wt....
Donna, To repeat: the gender of the noun obviously and logically determines the sex of the personification. Do you really want to posit an...
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