That is not surprising. Solidi did not circulate in the same way as silver and bronze coins. Solidi were used for large scale transactions, to pay...
I think this is a very difficult subject. Paintings and murals are regularly cleaned and restored. I was in Padua (Italy) a few weeks ago, where I...
Yes, this measure would have been impossible, but it would also have been unnecessary, because neither the Asian crisis of the 1990s, the tech...
True, gold supply grows at a stable rate of around 2% per year. If your economy is growing faster than this, prices will fall, i.e. the purchasing...
Some 80% of all global government bonds yield negative nominal interest. US 12-month treasury bills yield around 0%, i.e. a real yield (-...
Agreed, the attempt to return to the gold standard at pre WWI valuations was a catastrophic decision, which let to depression and deflation. If a...
I guess you meant "a wheelbarrow of paper money" to buy a loaf of bread.;) In real terms, Gold has very much preserved its purchasing power over...
Here is a Honorius Solidus from my collection. This coin was minted some 25 years after his death in Bracara (Braga) in modern Portugal during the...
Great coins shown in this thread. I have quite a few coins of Victorinus. Here is a scarcer type that shows Victorinius' full name. IMP C M...
Today (15.08.) marks the 50th anniversary of the end of the last vestiges of the gold standard. On 15.08.1971 (also a Sunday) President Nixon...
Interesting article on the grave of Honorius‘ wife Maria. The Renaissance popes destroyed more of ancient Rome than 1000 years of decay. If you...
The title Caesar entered the Germanic languages already in the first century. Hence, the German title Kaiser preserved much of the original...
I like the helmeted series from London a lot. Here is one of mine. I suppose the reverse legend (COMITI AVGG NN ) should probably be read as...
I like the series so much that I looked for and found another one from a different mint (Londinium). This is the seller's picture. According to...
I can only speculate, but the PAX-type may have been produced by a different workshop, which simply did not have access to a master...
A Dutch expert of Merovingian coins (Arent Pol) told me that the coin may by a product of the Thuringian kingdom, minted perhaps under king...
Ok, thanks for the explanation. Perhaps it is a temple toke or charm then. It clearly seems to have some religious character.
I think the coin I posted was from Wildwinds (need to find it again). But here is a very similar piece from the University of Münster in Germany....
Yes its Ticinum. Victor had already pointed out my error.
I have the coin below, which shows a bust of Mars on the reverse. I would say, that Mars was given similar features as Constantine. It is known...
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