RIC VI tells us that from 309-313 silver was scarce in the empire and so half-argentei and, later, base metal argentei were struck for Maximinus...
Initially I did not have anything of this exact type to contribute to the discussion, but that has now changed. My second most recent purchase is...
I'd like to put another face on this. Sometimes the "ugly billon" could like rather nice: [ATTACH] Not as spiffy as really good silver perhaps,...
That there may have been as yet unidentified mints to the east of Rome is not hard to imagine. What I object to is calling everything that is...
This reads like an auction lot description. May I ask whose description is this? When you look this coin up in BMCRE it is listed among the...
Ken, I have not seen anyone other than Oki that attributes this coin to an Eastern mint, and he has simply asserted it. If there is an authority...
Once again, I'm not understanding something here. To illustrate another coin from an eastern mint you linked us to a page for a coin in which it...
That must be nice. What did he say? How did he explain it?
Here's another CAESARIS with the K-P field marks from officina B. Our fourth officina for that type I believe: [ATTACH] I have another one for...
I'm confused. In the Gorny & Mosch lot description from 2015 (sale 233, lot 2366) they call it a hybrid and a contemporary imitation. (RRR!...
I don't think that's just a mule. The obverse is oddly engraved with a similar non-standard reverse. The house suggested it may be an unofficial...
You did notice this at the Surrey Nanosystems description of Vantablack S-VIS, didn't you: "The fine nanometre-sized optical cavities that make...
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