Nice portrait on that one @Gam3rBlake !
Here's my latest gold coin... Constantine X Ducas, 1059-1067. AV Histamenon Nomisma. (AV, 28 mm, 4.41 g, 5 h), Constantinople. +IhS XIS RЄX...
Nice coin.... @panzerman
Can't get enough of those third century usurpers... Macrianus, A.D. 260-261 Type: AE antoninianus, 22 mm 3.1 grams, Antioch mint. Obverse: IMP...
Wow, quite a pick-up for the price. You should be very happy!
An excellent coin @Julius Germanicus - I have a humbler sestertius with a more common reverse type: Volusian (251-253 A.D.) AE Sestertius, 29 mm...
I re-read this book again by my former professor at Berkeley Erich Gruen. It highlights the same material in his upper division history course...
4 = Probus. That's the only one I am sure of.
Ugliest tet category....Galba, Roman Egypt. [ATTACH] It is underweight, about 8 grams due to the pitting and corrosion.
Great stuff Donna.
What @TIF said.
Carl Sagan's prediction of the dumbing down of society appears to be true (1996)...
Aeternitati AVG (Sol standing right, holding globe) [ATTACH] Next: Anything by Gordian III
How many 'Mericans are in La-La land these days??? File it in the "alternate facts" category.
In the case of the Gordians their revolt was quickly supported by the Senate, and they started to issue coins from the Rome mint at lightning...
I think anyone who proclaimed himself emperor was an emperor, at least to his legions. Many usurpers called themselves Augustus including the...
Interesting coin. I have yet to purchase a Cleopatra piece.
Heh.
Roman Egypt, PB token of Antinous, please see the rendering of Antinopolis (Sheikh el-Abada), the city founded by the grieving Hadrian in memory...
Great coin TIF. I have some great SOLI INVICTO COMITI coins of Constantine that I will trade you for that one.;)
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