You're spot on, Thomas! I was already about to put this coin in a flip and place it in my swap box when I noticed the legend. As you said, Lesbos...
Thanks for the compliment! I just did a write-up on the Croesus 1/6 stater in an individual thread and more write-ups on the other highlights of...
Good idea for a thread, Curtis! It's nice to catch up on reading through some of the write-ups I have missed over the last months... Here is what...
Most people on this board have a different definition of "old" than the general population. This coin, though, is very old even in ancient coin...
Chiming in late. I can't properly identify your coin, but the reverse type (androcephalous eagle) appears on 13th century coins from Austria and...
Sept. 30: A pity that the month is over. As my last coin, I am posting the only large imperial bronze of Septimius Severus that I own. His...
September 29: A Mars reverse from the Eastern mint previously known as "Laodicea ad mare." The British museum now attributes these coins to...
I may have already shown this too often, but this colorful bracteate is probably my favorite toned coin: [ATTACH] Abbey of Fulda, under Heinrich...
September 23rd: Since I am posting my Septimius coins by RIC number, things will go east towards the end of the month. This "Emesa"-denarius has a...
September 22: A vota-issue I acquired this year. It's hard to not recognize who is standing there on the reverse. [ATTACH] Septimius Severus,...
Or someone bought a genuine coin from Leu and used it to produce cast fakes.
I'm not good at this and the images are of different quality, but the letter details of the second coin look much less sharp and well-defined than...
September 21: This popular type probably is a reference to Septimius Severus having granted Carthage the ius Italicum in 203/204 AD. My example...
This type was likely minted to celebrate Septimius Severus' sea voyage to Britain in 208 AD. There is some bitter irony in this: he was never to...
Nice storage solution! I’m keeping all my coins in Beba trays. They don’t need much space when they are in the drawer boxes but allow me to look...
Nice coins and article! Here is an eastern denarius of Geta comparable to @Alwin's example from the Rome mint: [ATTACH] Geta, Roman Empire, AR...
September 19th. The title "restitutor urbis" (restorer of the city) for the emperor is a Severan innovation: [ATTACH] Septimius Severus, Roman...
For September 17th, I've got a fourrée denarius. The silver plating on this coin is very thin. It cannot have taken long before this forgery was...
John Humphrey in his book on the Roman circus argues that triga-racing was an originally Etruscan tradition that was adopted by the Romans to some...
[ATTACH] Illyria, Dyrrhachion, AR stater, ca. 340–280 BC. Obv: cow standing r. with suckling calf; above, ME. Rev: double stellate square;...
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