Are you sure that it is a rosette diadem instead of the regular pearl diadem? This is how a rosette diadem of the time looked at Lyon: [ATTACH]...
I think that these are Melle products, struck in billon made with silver from the local mines. The standard was high for these coins from the...
The Valens piece is absolutely extraordinary and had to be minted for some particular event -- possibly the defeat of Procopius?
Aquitaine is nice and all but Poitou deniers are better -- better metal, better size, better weight. [ATTACH]
The small Helena commemorative AE4 was very expensive.
Can almost hear the borking and the meowe
A good opportunity for some dynastic-commemorative issues from the two series of 325/6 for Constantine's vicennalia and 329 for Helena's funeral:...
In regards to prices dropping a lot in the last 5 years, last summer this Vetranio was 30EUR fees and shipping included. [ATTACH]
There was a brief period of confusion at the mint of Antioch in 308, when the mint had to make up its mind whether to depict Constantine as Caesar...
I think anyone interested in the 350s coinage should read this article by Walter Holt on the "Revolt of Poemenius" and the coinage of Trier in...
The coins are simply better, not just in better shape. Western mints, better denominations and some diversity, although in the same general...
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Eastern Europe is not as sketchy as it used to be.
Not Constantine rather a commemorative for Claudius II Gothicus cca. 270-271. Needs reverse too for proper id.
Looks like a very difficult piece to photograph.
Thank you, it seems we are likely to see treasure in the most unlikely conditions.
This is an extremely ugly coin and, at the same time, a rather scarce and, I think, historically important issue: [ATTACH] AE24mm 3.49g...
Lost 2 deniers mauvais of Aimery de Lusignan for Jerusalem, a follis of Edessa of Baldwin II and a denier tournois of Mehun-sur-Yevre. Of them...
The Glykon serpent as discovered in 1962 together with other religious statues, including Fortuna and Pontos (the protectors of seafarers on the...
It doesn't mean they are unremarkable. Also there are so many of them that they had to be a distinct coinage (kind of like the tournois of Catalan...
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