I just checked about 50 coins of Crispus, Constantine II, and Constantius II and didn't find anything like sideburns. [ATTACH] Common BEATA...
Anastasius inherited a dysfunctional coinage with only a tiny 1-gram AE4 coin and gold coins, with no convenient denominations in between. He...
That link to the BnF site takes me to a coin's obverse that is not the correct coin. Their search engine was not too helpful. I finally found the...
Here is my Nicopolis city gate: [ATTACH] 26 mm. 11.79 grams. Hristova and Jekov Nikolois ad Istrum 8.23.46.3 Price and Trell 58, no photo, but...
True. I used to think Class A1 was scarce, but I do not think so anymore. Byzantine copper is often in poor condition and not of much value....
It was common for PIVS FELIX to be almost spelled out under Gordian III: [ATTACH] IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG Under Heraclius (610-641) there...
A friend of mine collected the "Cross above head" early Byzantine varieties for many years. I studied them and put them on the web for him:...
Here is an introduction to Byzantine copper coins: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Byz/ You will find most of your types there.
Here is a Byzantine anonymous follis, Class G, attributed to Romanus IV, 1068-1071, who lost the famous battle of Manzikert (now in Eastern...
I already had the Hellenistic one and found it excellent and enjoyable. So, I just ordered two from Amazon, the Republican one and "From Caesar to...
Looking at the legend on mine, just above, I see some well-formed letters but not well-formed words. It looks like V M AΛ S L L - ... O L S C N I...
At a Roman mint when die-engravers are working day in and day out cutting dies and having developed their skills, possibly over years, we may be...
The follis of @robinjojo is far nicer than mine, but I got a hole-filler year-38 today: [ATTACH] 35-32 mm. 17.95 grams. Much of it is flat...
I wonder if that is really Galba. It is the "bust of a bald man with an aquiline nose." Very few ancient busts have their original noses--they...
Thank you for keeping me honest. I changed the descriptions on the site to correspond better to the coins. I think one is "peal-diademed" (#3 in...
Sure, if you count provincials, which I do. There are many tetradrachms from Antioch and Syria and tridrachms (which are probably light...
Here is my page on AE coins of Jovian: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Jovian/Jovian.html I don't claim to know about the fine distinction we are...
Excellent! It is an very historical type--the perfect type to propagandize what Postumus was doing. I have this "hard to find" Postumus:...
That book by Wayne Sayles, "Ancient Coin Collecting VI: Non-Classical Cultures," is for me the most useful of the series, perhaps because it is so...
Language is used to communicate. Words are part of language. Along the way we learn to expect what certain words, like "rare," mean. Then, as a...
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