@kazuma78, a beautiful example and a fantastic photo! This type happens to be one of my own favorite Roman Republican coins: Roman Republic, L...
Not if they were really buried in the early 1st Century BCE.
Fortunately, the various "subtypes" of RIC X 1287 (all depending on the slightly different bends in and positions of the captives' legs!) are...
My only Agathodaemon: Hadrian, Billon Tetradrachm, Year 3 (118/119 AD), Alexandria, Egypt Mint. Obv. Laureate head right, drapery on left...
Here are examples of 1287a. c, and d from Wildwinds, along with examples from Wildwinds of captive types b and g from other mints. [ATTACH]...
It is interesting that it's still possible to buy four or five late Roman -- not even "Byzantine" -- gold solidi for the price of one decent...
Thanks to both of you (and to everyone else who's commented). I did want to mention that choosing a side-facing Honorius to pair with my...
Because he's wearing pants. Hence, a barbarian. Hercules wouldn't be caught dead wearing pants! He only fights with lions when he's naked.
Thanks, but it's rather unlikely unless I refrain from buying any other coins between now and then. I don't think I have that much willpower!
A wonderful coin. Looks like a type "d" captive to me! By the way, do you know what RIC type yours is? It's not at all easy to tell them apart,...
Here's a detail of the captive, in case it helps see him (and his legs) any better. [ATTACH]
Back in April of this year, I posted my first ancient gold coin, a solidus of Arcadius from Constantinople, with a provenance back to 1960. See...
I wouldn't recognize an imperial mantle if it weren't pointed out to me, but Diocletian supposedly wears one on this abdication follis:...
Can a moderator please move this to the proper forum?
It has to be a joke, right?
Sorry -- I will never be gentile.
As long as this thread has been revived, I may as well post my own Antestius in it -- a coin with a triply-interesting provenance of famous...
To state the obvious -- wrong forum. Unless it's a joke that's going over my head.
Not Commodus; he and his twin were born more than a decade later!
There's a recently-published book about Faustina II & her coins that @Roman Collector has. The author is Martin Beckmann.
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