Here's hoping you find that Carausius!! And I remember that siliqua well - hands down the nicest coin of Gratian to ever pass through my store....
You have some lovely examples of coins that are usually quite decrepit. Great collecting!
I like threads that explore one specific type of iconography. Here is a provincial bronze of Severus Alexander, struck in Marcianopolis, with...
These are civic issues struck in Alexandria Troas during the time of Gallienus. Funny that the provincial mints were producing much finer coins...
Metal gouged out at his temple, filled and repatinated, maybe a bronze disease cure? Maybe a plugged hole?
Hi Dominic, welcome to the forum! Here's what a real one looks like... https://www.cointalk.com/threads/tribute-penny.337592/
I love cigars, and I wish I could have one once in a while. But I'm afraid that if I did, it would draw me back into smoking a pack a day of...
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The dealer I bought this from insisted it was a North African Vandalic imitation, but all the Vandals coins I've seen imitate later types. I think...
Outstanding! I could see there was a VF+ coin under the dirt. What a great find.
Nice! I look forward to seeing it cleaned up.
I came across one of these at a show yesterday and it was priced right. Most I've seen are quite worn and banged up. At 56 grams, I imagine that...
“Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's.” Matthew 22:21. All three synoptic gospels explain that...
Philosophically speaking, the actual type of the coin is irrelevant to Jesus' message, which is a message echoed by disparate wisdom traditions...
You want to post that elsewhere. This is the ancient coins forum. Wait, on second thought, my kids call me ancient and that coin is 5 years older...
Crosses were the predominant theme on the anonymous (and Lilliputian) denars of Medieval Hungary... [IMG] HUNGARY. Anonymous. temp II....
Uniface Medieval lead pilgrim token, period of the Crusades, 11th to 13th centuries, crude cruciform devices... [ATTACH]
Byzantine anonymous follis, Class A3, facing bust of Christ, wearing nimbus cruciger, pallium, and colobium, Gospels in both hands. Time of Basil...
Here's a tribute penny that I happen to have in my inventory at the moment. One of the better ones I've come across... [ATTACH]
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