I love this Diocletian Antoninian with the golden-hue-silvering! Interesting writeup too. Dr. Neussel was apparently a very nice and...
Fascinating coins and historical information. I think only a strong central government would have been able to establish a token-coinage with...
I would have no objections to the EF grading of the Hadrian denarius. I think it is Leu's policy to understate grading and auction estimates....
The author argues that Koson was likely a son of Burebista and that the term DROUEIS is etymologically related to the celtic term Druids. However,...
Great selection! I voted for Claudius II, Tacitus with the special reverse and Trebonianus Gallus.
If you enter "Koson stater" in acsearch, you get over 1000 hits. These coins are amazingly common. These statere must be among the most common...
Interesting, I had always assumed that the veiled portrait depicted the deceased and deified Caesar. I'm surprised that these were minted during...
The Basternae were a Germanic people at the western Black Sea coast. My understanding is that the above Kolchis coins comes from the eastern Black...
Great writeup and very interesting thread! Just my two cents: I doubt the theory that Brutus had coins made in order to pay Dacian warriors, who...
That is a very worrying forgery. I wonder if this talented forger made other forgeries that have gone undetected.
This Maximian Follis is spectacular. Clearly UNC/mint condition. As "Cherd" said, if the silvering is partially preserved or fragmented this can...
The seller replied to my question, saying that the coins were found together in the French Département de l'Yonne (central France some 300 km...
I agree, I think it is the same with all ancient coins. Bright silver is usually less attractive and hence less desirable than a nice and even...
I don't know and I wondered about that myself. I guess not very long. They were minted within a span of some 2 to 4 years, but none of them shows...
Not sure that I understand what you means. The style of the Lugdunum mint is easily recognisable in that period.
Its the style which identifies them as products of the Lugdunum mint. Merry Christmas
and the other two that I bought (again sellers' pictures) [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Here is another one. This is the seller's picture. The early portrait of Probus, where he looks like Florianus is quite desirable. [ATTACH]
We are so used to seeing Antoniniani of the late 3rd century in brown, black or dark green colours that it is easy to forget how these coins...
True, I think when it comes to naturalistic portraiture the last flowering of this art was in the 270s and 280s in western mints, such as Lugdunum...
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