The first thing that comes to my mind when somebody mentions Nero is "I wish I had a sestertius of him".
[ATTACH]"Liberalitas Augg": "liberality of the two Augusts". One could say that Philip the Arab and his son were damned liberals, which could...
[ATTACH]I like this Constantine follis from Alexandria, the emperor looks funny :clown: NEXT : consular bust (Roman or Byzantine)
Gorgeous specimen !!! But @Andres2 said "Constantine the Great", and this beautiful coin is of Constantine Jr...
Well... 4th Century BC or AD? [ATTACH] Athens, tetradrachm, second half of 4th c. BC [ATTACH] Valens (364-378 AD), siliqua of Treves. NEXT :...
Thank you. So the coin is skyphate? Or is the reverse flat so the coin is very thick in the centre?
[ATTACH] My modest collection of fakes... Nice uncles, aunts or distant relatives, when they had been visiting Tunisia, Turkey, Jordan and other...
It is Antoninus Pius, from Apollonia Pontica https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3301599
Please, what is the imitative one?
[ATTACH] Anastasius nummus : AE 7 mm, 0.70 g [ATTACH] Anastasius large follis : AE 36 mm, 18.75 g
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] (looks better in hand) My best Isis is Ptolemaic Ptolemy V Epiphanes AE 29 mm, 19.80 g (205-180 BC) Obv.: head of Isis right...
Very interesting, thanks ! There is a curious medallion of Commodus, probably a New Year medallion of 187 AD, with Janus/Commodus. The reverse...
[ATTACH] Arab-Byzantine fals - Emesa (Homs, Syria) KAΛON / b-Homs (in Arabic) , bust of a Byzantine emperor holding globe with cross. EMI CHC...
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[ATTACH] This fragment is in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, since 2002. You will see that the bottom right quarter corresponds almost exactly with...
My dream coin? There are many of them... Probably this one: [ATTACH] Alexander III 'the Great", 5 sheqels or decadrachm, AR 40.08 g. Probably...
[ATTACH] Numidia, Massinissa or Micipsa (208-118 BC), AE 29 mm, 15.88 g Obv.: laureate head of king (?) left Rev.: horse galloping left, over...
[ATTACH] Seleucid, Antiochus VII (138-129 BC), AE 18 mm, 5.80 g. Antioch, 137 BC. Obv: Winged bust of Eros right. Rev: BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ ANTIOXOY...
[ATTACH] Volusian, AE 31 mm of Perge (Pamphylia), 19.81 g. https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/9/1117A specimen 1. Obv.: Α Κ Γ ΟΥ ΑΦ ΓΑΛ...
[ATTACH] Antioch, AE3 of 310-311 AD. GENIO ANTIOCHENI / APOLLONI SANCTO NEXT: Apollo seated
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