I have a web page on distinguishing between Maximian and Galerius: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/tetrarchy/distinguishing.html The OP coin is from...
I have a website on VOTA types: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/VOTA/ They are common. In the late fourth century, many are AE4s with VOT/X/MVLT/XX in...
Being a generalist, I have bought some Parthian coins, but I didn't try to fill out the series or pick up rarities. Back when I bought this coin...
Some historians say that all the tetrarchs look alike. In some stylistic sense that is so, but in detail it is not. I happen to like coins of...
@nicholasz219 , I love your spelled-out vota-year coins. Excellent!
@Andres2 , your OP coin is beautiful. Here is a sestertius of Otacilia Severa: [ATTACH] 30 mm. 19.92 grams. MARCIA OTACIL SEVERA ACG CONCORDIA...
Those are excellent Turkoman bronzes. Arabic in a CT post! I wouldn't know what to insert or how to insert it. I have a web page with references...
Offer them here on CoinTalk at the "for-sale" forum: https://www.cointalk.com/forums/for-sale/ If you price them at full retail they probably...
Most Islamic coin types consist of Arabic legends without images, but in the 12th and 13th centuries Turkoman rulers in eastern Turkey and Syria...
The flans of the first two have very similar manufacture which seems to be the way official flans were made. (The OP coin has that type of flan,...
That is always a question with these. I think mine, the OP coin, is official. The lettering is too good for an Arabic imitation. I think your...
The island of Cyprus in the eastern Mediterranean Sea hosted a Byzantine mint (probably at the city of Constantina) for three years under emperor...
Sticker paper and paste have chemicals. I wonder if they have potentially negative affects? If you use clear plastic flips, you could have the...
I got this humorous take on history in an email today. I am repeating it virtually unchanged, except for including a Roman Republican coin (and...
Here is a coin of the emperor we call Licinius with an early long version of his name. [ATTACH] 25 mm, which is large for a coin of Licinius...
I recently got the first coin which helps tell a good story. Coins of Maximian, co-Augustus (286-305) with Diocletian, often have the simple...
I agree that prices have gone up since covid. I will stipulate that and write about the history of prices before 2020. I have a large library of...
Here is my take on ancient coins as a monetary investment: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/numis/investment.html They are an investment which pays...
They are both genuine ancient coins. On the left is a coin of Roman emperor Aurelian, 270-275. It is a tetradrachm from Alexandria, Egypt. On...
I have an ancient imitation of a London follis of Diocletian. [ATTACH] 26 mm. 4.87 grams. (Notice how light it is.) IMP C DIOCLETIANVS PF AG...
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