Great examples @zumbly.
Really nice provincials @Al Kowsky !!!
I'll show my newest provincials: PAMPHYLIA. Side. Caracalla, 198-217. Pentassarion (?) (Bronze, 30 mm, 17.51 g, 1 h). AY K M AY CEY ANTΩNЄINOC...
Nice trachys all! Great pick ups @BenSi !
I vote for Caracalla
Mine is Gordian III. His issues were somewhat plentiful but not as common as the antoniniani. Interesting auction example of Probus.
Here's my contribution: Tacitus 275 - 276 Ӕ silvered Antoninianus, Rome, 275 21 x 23 mm - 4.07 g IMP C M CL TACITVS AVG Radiate, draped and...
Nice coin @Orielensis - fine addition to the collection.
Interesting perspective on this coin which presumably alludes to some kind of mythology. COMMAGENE, Zeugma. Philip I the Arab or Philip II....
One day I will probably sell my whole collection on consignment, save for worthless LRB's of which I have almost a thousand coins. My collectible...
12 hour rule... Constantine X Ducas, 1059-1067. AV Histamenon Nomisma. (AV, 28 mm, 4.41 g, 5 h), Constantinople. +IhS XIS RЄX RЄςNANTҺIm Christ,...
You should enjoy the John Julius Norwich books - I have most of them in my library.
Magnus Maximus, 383 - 388 A.D. AE 2, 24mm 5.7 grams Obverse: DN MAG MAXIMVS PF AVG Diademed head right, draped and cuirassed Reverse: REPARATIO...
I believe that in early Imperial times the African rhino could be found in Egypt still, just like the hippo. However by the 4th century the Nile...
Yeah freeing it up so it can breathe would make the coin happy.
I get the feeling that the scenario describing the emperor causing largesse to be thrown to the crowds in the form of these tokens is right on....
A really bad example from an uncleaned hoard.... [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Another victorious Gallienus: Nice silver (relatively speaking!) Date: 257-258 AD, AR antoninianus Obverse: GALLIENVS P F AVG, Radiate...
I'd vote Postumus. If it is Victorinus it might be an INVICTVS reverse type which has the figure like yours on the reverse. However that coin is a...
Nice coins Barry.
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