My favorite emperor is Trajan. Competitors for the title would be Augustus if his coins were less expensive and Gallienus, who has both the zoo...
I collect Byzantine copper (among other series), but not gold. I could not bear to add only a few coins a year to my collection. By collecting...
You are so right. When I was young Mickey Mantle was one of the most famous baseball players. Does that mean a mint state rookie card of him is...
The CONSERV VRB SVAE type was initiated by Maxentius, as seen above. His father, the former emperor Maximian, joined Maxentius and began his...
The ANS just posted a video by Peter van Alfen on the coins Athens: [MEDIA] It is quite well done and he shows some outstanding coins. Here is...
I don't have a coin from my birth year, but that year was the 2000th anniversary of this coin: [ATTACH] A Roman Republican silver denarius,...
There already is NGC for coins. What we now need is WGC (Watch Guarantee Corporation) for watches. Grade and slab them--that's the trick! A great...
This is from my page on the Second Tetrarchy: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/tetrarchy/Second.html [ATTACH] Galerius, during the Second Tetrarchy...
Coin #5 belongs to @bcuda . His posts suggest he likes horses, Spanish AE, and late Roman AE. So, I inferred that he might buy some other AE. But,...
This thread would be sorter if it were about rulers who didn't die a violent death.
I just added some Arabic/Islamic coins to my website of ancient coins for sale: http://augustuscoins.com/index.html They are on the "Byzantine"...
Seleukos I, 312-281, a successor of Alexander the Great, famously had elephants. [ATTACH] A drachm. 17 mm. 4/16 grams. Laureate head of Zeus...
Here is Crawford 269/1, 125 BC, C. Caecilius Metellus [ATTACH] 18 mm. 3.92 grams. "recalls the victory of L. Caecilius Metellus, Cos. 251, over...
Welcome, @kirispupis . Here is a webpage with links to selected older CoinTalk posts I thought collectors might find interesting....
Be aware that there are at least two different firms calling themselves the "Time Machine." One is a vcoins store "The Time Machine" owned by the...
Basil I was Byzantine emperor from 867 to 886. He founded the "Macedonian Dynasty" which lasted almost 200 years, until 1056. Here is one of his...
An IDE MAR aureus sold for over $3 million (Roma Auction XX Day 1, 29-10-2020, Lot 463)....
It is not worth half that. I think it is simply panic buying. It is easy to be afraid things are going up so much you need to buy now before...
I would guess @Theodosius but I already picked him for an earlier coin, so I am going with @Curtisimo , even though he doesn't seem to usually...
This ought to be from @Curtisimo . He has often posted late Roman bronzes and the OP coin is bronze (if not late Roman). He notes the OP coin was...
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