Wayne Sayles gives the following, very general table of daily income and prices in Athens in the 5th to 4th century BC. It is certainly possible...
Coins of Gordian III were among the last Roman issues to be struck in relatively good silver. Thus they were hoarded a lot and survive in large...
It's Saturday night, and I just took pictures of this Victorinus ant, which came together with a few other coins I have for the most part already...
Maybe I'm interpreting too much into it, but I guess I see a laurel wreath. That and the attributes (victory and spear) would make it possible to...
That's a very ttractive example of this type, @David Atherton ! Here is a coin with some very interesting monumental minutiae that will almost...
@Victor_Clark , our resident expert for all things late Roman, has already said more about the possible meaning of this reverse than I could have....
Thanks for the kind words and for showing your coins, everyone! That is a very desirable and historically interesting coin that many collectors...
Most Roman Imperial coins show an emperor or an empress, but they usually do so on the obverse. Yet some also depict the ruler once more again on...
That's a very attractive coin and an erudite write-up. I was asking myself whether there is anything known about the significance of these reverse...
The triga only appears on these two Roman Republican types – as Donna mentioned above, it is a very unusual chariot on Roman coins: [ATTACH] Roman...
Excellent coin and thread! I occasionally see engraving errors in medieval Latin legends that make me assume the engraver didn't read that...
That is a splendid tetradrachm – the test cut only makes Philetairos appear even more rugged than he looks anyways. I also very much enjoyed...
This is an extremely attractive coin, especially with the dark patina. What a wonderful example! My own Mars coins are all much more pedestrian:...
Happy Birthday, Rome! [ATTACH] Roman Republic, moneyer: Sex. Pompeius Fostlus, AR denarius, 137 BC, Rome mint. Obv: head of Roma, helmeted, r.;...
Nice coin and write-up! This has been one of my first Roman Republican denarii. I still very much like it, although it is missing most of the...
Here is a recent purchase that, at least in my eyes, deserves a short write-up: [ATTACH] Julia Soaemias, Roman Empire, AR denarius, 218–222 AD,...
It's Saturday night. Here is a little Constantine I picked up for the equivalent of $15 shipped last week. My reasons for this: Arles is an...
That's a very likeable coin. I have no particularly strong feelings about Apollo's crotch, but the level of detail on his face on your example is...
Splendid coins and write-up, @John Conduitt ! Especially the tamgha types are extremely desirable in my eyes. Mongol coinage is a fascinating...
A nice new acquisition! I very much like the earlier, not-so-common AE types of Constantine. [ATTACH] Constantine I, Roman Empire, AE1...
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