I had eight coins that arrived this week and spent a bit of time today photographing them. I noticed a strong theme demonstrated by seven of them...
Now I am very late to the game with one of these andI have seen loads of examples here but this is my first of these types.... Drown my examples...
There are a bunch of COS II legend varieties from Emesa that have shortened elements in the obverse legend. I am always on the lookout for these...
I don't often drift off into what are often referred to as Limes denarii but stumbled across this as a bargain basement space filler until I find...
One of my collecting themes (passions) is the coinage of Probus from Lugdunum. I seldom get to add coins to this theme now as there seems to be...
I don't usually collect the Rome mint coinage of Septimius Severus but when I spot something I find unusual I do pounce on it. I believe this to...
OK. I admit it. I must be obsessed. I seem to be continuing to obtain hut coins. I am not obsessed enough yet to be collecting all the different...
I hadn't bought myself a campgate in years and then I saw this one in JA's Private Auctions. I have developed a tase for Alexandria imperials and...
My hut collection grows even further. I needed Antioch and Siscia... my hunt for others continues.... Siscia for Constans and Constantius II...
I like Mars coins and for some reason I collect coins from Lugdunum. Sometimes those two things collide. Happy day. Constantine the Great - AE...
On pages 495-496 RIC VIII splits the hut coins for Constans at Cyzicus into two FH(a) (FEL TEMP REPA-RATIO) and FH(b) (FEL TEMP REP-ARATIO). These...
It makes me shake my head http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/361659611154 [ATTACH]
I have bought myself some coins from the Gallic Empire, each with their own reason for purchase. Coin 1:- Postumus - Antoninianus Obv:– IMP C...
The following coin is for sale on ebay by a well known, high feedback, German dealer. [ATTACH] It is described as VF and smoothed. It is...
Another new FEL TEMP REPARATIO coin but this time an Emperor with captives type of Constantius II. My question here is what is in the exe.?...
Sometimes when browsing something really catches your eye. This coin did exactly that. It is a Galley type - FEL TEMP REPARATIO of Constans but is...
This is a recent purchase that I thought worthy of sharing. The primary deity of Maximianus Herculius was Hercules and the primary deity of...
Amongst my many collecting themes is that of ADVENTVS coins. These were produced to commemorate the arrival of the emperor and can thus be placed...
As some of you will know. I have a collection of Mars related coins. Here are three coins on the subject that have arrived this week that somewhat...
There was a question in a thread "Can a coin acquire "desert patina" if it wasn't minted anywhere near the desert?". This raises the question...
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