If you find something that can be used to make a parallel to the (early) middle ages, you'd have a very interesting article to be written about it.
Was this from the last Roma sale?
Very interesting connection, but I am afraid I can't visualize which folio you have in mind, perhaps you could post it here for further discussion?
The best of them all, and the mint at Smyrna had just gone from being a local mint to minting Imperial coinage in 268, first for Gallienus and...
Or 16b? At 2.96g it could be prior to the elevation of Gratian.
This is a very ugly but rather scarce argenteus from Rome in the second half of 294. Again ugly as sin and properly cheap as such: [ATTACH]
I think your coin is from a collection that went for sale at a couple of German dealers, with coins we have talked about before here. Likely a...
@JayAg47 ugly coins can be very interesting, nobody can argue with that, it's a fact. This one is ugly as sin, but an unlisted officina for...
What a coin!
A particularly Constantinopolitan type from the late 320s, perhaps around 327/8: [ATTACH]
TESΓ [ATTACH] and ・TESΓ・ [ATTACH]
More Western AE2s: [ATTACH] MAGNUS MAXIMUS AE2 23mm, 4.02g copper maiorina, minted at Arelate-Constantiana, cca. autumn to end of 384. DN MAG...
1527 - Janos Zapolya as self-styled Prince of Transylvania and claimant King of Hungary: [ATTACH]
Also, between the four coins presented there are not four millennia of anything.
The small medieval one is possibly a denaro piccolo from Verona around mid 13th century, minted under Frederick II of Svevia or later.
So lately I have done something that I don't usually do: I bought two small lots (6 coins in total) from what seems to be a collection and/or a...
Green patina on copper alloy is nice and all, but how about some green patina on silver billon? [ATTACH]
Possibly a copper szelag/solidus of Jan II Casimir of Poland
An actually scarce AE of Valens from Sirmium, caught up between the early types and the closing of the mint around late 364 or really early 365....
Apparently the coin in OP comes from Tareq Hani Collection.
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