For someone interested in medieval and post-medieval Italy, I also highly recommend Andreani and D'Andrea's Le Monete dell'Abruzzo e del Molise,...
Will we ever know who and by which authority minted these? I have read on different dates and accounts of: local Pugliese and/or Calabrese issues...
As usual in these matters I prefer Nicomedia for the style. Nicomedia also seems to have struck less of these and of the votive centenionalis....
The difficulty here is discerning soluta from suscepta. For instance the ROMAE AETERNAE type of 320 marks Constantine's quindecennalia so a vota...
I drink beer/ale during the day and wine with soda after 7.
A Valentinian II AE3 re-issue of the GLORIA ROMANORVM type of Valentinian I from Siscia autumn of 384 to the summer of 387, rather scarce I think,...
I think I can see a B under FILLER, which would make it Budapest rather than Kremnitz as a mint so likely a later emission than WW1.
The metal detectorist probably found it in the general area of the Empire.
Probably an Austro-Hungarian 2 Filler ca. 1916-1918, not silver but iron, check it out here:...
The bottom one is a Black Sea region - Moesia Inferior city. Possibly Markianopolis for Elagabal?
The weight was actually stated, what I did not expect was the wide and medallic flan. Not even the siliquae from the 330s and 340s were this...
On the 28th of September 351, the armies of Constantius II won the bloody battle of Mursa Major and Magnentius was pushed into Gaul with his...
This week got a Carausius from the old CGB stock, a really ugly coin that's somehow adorable: [ATTACH] AE18mm billon antoninian/aurelian...
And for Ostia as a mint in 313 with Constantine's re-organization of Italian mints.
Would you allow a small cast limes copper-alloy denarius/quinarius of Alexander as Caesar AE15mm 1.53g? [ATTACH]
What a nice touch is that bat on top of the rotonda. It's like a silent guardian. A watchful protector.
Theodahad as King of Ostrogothic Italy, AE4 15mm 2.71g copper decanummia of Ravenna, ca. 536: [ATTACH] INVICT - A ROMA; helmeted, draped...
Entry 92.3 from Mr. Esty's metallurgical study: [ATTACH] From an Israeli collector, approved by the Israel Antiquities Authority: [ATTACH]...
Same coin, retouched on the black and white photo.
Following the loss of Africa and subsequently Carthage by Maxentius, the mint of Ostia was opened around late 308 or in 309 to lift the pressure...
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