Ironically, not one of the three is actually LRB, which properly begins with the reforms of Diocletian in the first Tetrarchy. The bronze...
Great catch on that Balbinus!! There is a dark illustration in RSC vol III for RSC 27 but your suggestion answers everything, and more. The BMC...
Victor "Tory" Failmezger. Roman Bronze Coins: from paganism to Christianity 294-364 A.D. Ross & Perry: Washington, 2002. Photos by Doug Smith....
Nice to see you on this board too, Paul. Welcome!! The double "N" spelling isn't particularly rare, but I don't recall having ever seen a...
In ancient Ugarit (~15th to 11th centuries BC) Baal was the storm god, distinguished in art and lore by brandishing the thunderbolt. This aspect...
I'm not sure that proper weight on a solid siver planchet will prevent us from thinking counterfeit, if we understand "counterfeit" to mean any...
Nice apotheosis sestertius. I didn't know this type for Faustina II existed. On the consecratio theme, I just picked this one up today:...
For JP Antioch could be a bit extreme at times: [ATTACH] But Rome was not uniform in its convention either: [ATTACH]
Since Doug mentioned a Mamaea reverse, and Vesta figures into this unlisted variety, how about another unlisted Vesta item: [ATTACH] The two...
I see the note by Cohen in the clip you sent (I keep forgetting these things are online) and Seaby included that too in his adaptation to English,...
RSC lists it as 22a, but I can't tell if that's an interpolation on Cohen (the original basis of the RSC numbering) or original to him. Your...
In all probability, dust is only the surface part of your problem. The real problem concerns what is causing the dust to find the coins in the...
WRT Laodicea: the British Museum on its website showing the Severan coins of Laodicea has taken to relocating them to "Antiochia ad Orontem."...
Returning to the original theme of the thread, hair styles: I'm grateful for the list from Hill. I have been paying some attention to the...
You do know that the name of Gordian is misspelled in the obverse inscription, right? And that the alignment of the lettering at the initial part...
Misery loves company perhaps, but Clio got me at literally the last second on this one https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=345081 I sniped...
Ah the internal family intrigues in high circles! Excellent writeup, and the usual exceptional coins. Great stuff. My followup is with a...
Thanks for the comment, David. However, I think you put a different spin on my note than was intended. I don't think anyone has disputed that...
Here are a couple of Julia Domna denarii I bought within the last month that came in in this range (after currency conversion): A SAECVLI FELICIT...
From top to bottom the focal plane is not quite parallel to the surfaces, so you have fine detail at top and a fuzzy "smoothness" at bottom....
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