It's Monday here! Below is my first medieval acquisition for quite a while. At the moment, I'm on a tight coin budget due to major non-numismatic...
Your coin really is exceptional. My example, in contrast, is in the condition that you typically see with these coins: [ATTACH] Kingdom of...
Donna already gave a thorough background on this issue above - so I'm just posting my example, which also has the SC in the exergue. Crawford...
[ATTACH] Germanicus (postumous issue under Claudius), AE as, 40–54 AD, Rome mint. Obv: GERMANICVS CAESAR TI AVG F DIVI AVG N; head of Germanicus,...
As @ambr0zie said, your coin is in the normal weight range for a Severan denarius. The different RIC numbers have nothing do do with weight. My...
What a fascinating write-up! I always enjoy Faustina Friday. Below is my Juno denarius of Faustina II. I am bad at distinguishing between the...
@DonnaML , I generally agree with you but would like to reply to two of your points: I know this argument but don't believe it holds true. In...
A very interesting write-up! I had not seen a Claudius II with "C M AVR" in the obverse legend before, and it's fascinating to read about the...
You should be able to find your coin using this website: http://numismatics.org/pella/. The grapes below the club on the reverse are the control...
As stated above, its an ort. Here is my 1622 example along with a description: [ATTACH] Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Sigismund III Vasa, AR...
Thanks for the nice write-up! I definitely learned something about a popular coin type that many of us on this board have in their collections....
This coin might be little too young for the ancients forum – but we have to keep the ball rolling: [ATTACH] House Habsburg, Ferdinand II, AR 3...
Possibly the coin has been stripped of an uneven or otherwise ugly original patina and afterwards been "repatinated" using liver of sulfur or a...
That is a truly nice eastern denarius of Severus Alexander! I like it very much. The Caracalla is fine, too, especially considering the reverse....
In case this is of interest to you: Some of Kovacs' coins also went to the Stanford library collection. A part of the collection has recently been...
Interesting article! Thank you for posting it. There is a fly on the reverse of my Lampsakos diobol: [ATTACH] Mysia, Lampsakos, diobol, ca....
First, I collect Roman Imperial and Roman Republican coins mainly for iconographic and/or historical interest. Coins of the Severan dynasty and...
Here is a Greek hemidrachm I bought last year but haven't shown yet. I very much like the portrait of Zeus on the obverse: [ATTACH] Achaean...
These are some exceptionally nice and rare Mongol coins in the original post. My only coin minted for Genghis simply names him "the just khan,"...
The Bohemond VII gros from the County of Tripoli (middle coin on the left) would be quite valuable if it were real. Unfortunately, it very much...
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