Those are excellent post-abdication issues. My favorite Diocletians are the pre-reform Siscia mint coded series where the word IOBI is divided by...
One question that might arise is where we get the ID of that figure as Romulus. I suspect it is related to the Hadrian issue which identified the...
The thickness of silver is shown on this late version of the foil method fourree for Julia Domna. Closeups of details are fun. This one lost...
I see good surfaces with less than even striking and some loss of clarity in the legend on the left. The left star is weaker than the right. The...
My experience over the decades is that most people who set out to get a complete set either give up or change their definition of 'complete' to...
I have long wanted a sestertius like the one shown by Alwin but only have asses. The one below is a bit unusual in using the sestertius legend...
When I went off to college in the fall of 1964 I needed a photo of a group of coins to illustrate a paper I was writing for a class in ancient...
There is a series of sestertii showing Marcus raising a kneeling personification of a region of the empire he has aided in some way. This is...
This is so very true and brings up a question for some of us who have been here several years. When a topic comes up for the twentieth time,...
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I was always too cheap to pay the price for real Abfil trays but always preferred open trays until my collection grew so large I could no longer...
At your age, budget problems have a way of correcting themselves. Losing interest and stopping the search for knowledge will not. Some people...
Great idea for a mini specialty!
I like this online survey but I'm prejudiced since I wrote it. It covers the general categories of ancients as I saw them when I wrote the pages...
No, this was never true. It was 1/4 of the denarius. First that was 1/4 of a ten as denarius and later 1/4 of a 16 as denarius. There was a...
It would be interesting to know how many dies were made for Gallienus. I would guess over a thousand --- possibly several times that. Of them, as...
I disagree here. A trias is 1/3 of the unit so that would be four onkia. Three onkia would be a tetras. Similarly, in Rome, the four dot coin...
When we consider the coins it seems best to split the reign of Diocletian in two making the Post Reform issues the start of the Dominate and what...
I keep my coins under 10mm in 'gem jars' made for rock specimens. These come in various sizes with 24, 36 or 50 fitting in a foam insert case....
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