My left facing Septimius Severus ('Emesa') brought two of its right facing brothers. The first two coins have the broken obverse legend E-V...
I try very hard not to buy coins that I will plan to upgrade. There are many coins competing for my limited budget and buying a sequence of coins...
A 'bit'? I'd say so. That 'virgin test' type is pushing a 6. Harlan spent 5+ pages on the type but his book has detractors perhaps because he...
Donna's type most certainly is high on the rating scale bearing my name where 1/5 is 'just standing there' and 5/5 doing something really...
Do we need a rule that posts that do not include a Next: are to be taken as decoration rather than entries so the next person who fills that...
Both seem like reasonable guesses but I am unable to see how either can be proven. Either way it is a nice coin I wish I owned. The one I traded...
It may be stretching the matter but not too far: It is almost unusual to find two coins of Pescennius Niger that are exactly the same in spelling...
E and epsilon are the same thing. We today have thousands of fonts available on our computers but ancient people did not always form their letters...
I showed my best one over on some Victory thread yesterday and my worst but most rare one too many times. PeteB showed one like my IVSTITIA but...
furryfrog02 said it all so all I can add is a photo of another specimen. You will notice that your coin is a bit more clear on the dots in the...
It looks a lot better when the flan is large and the die is small. Justinian offers both. This Antioch mint, year 25 half follis was struck with...
Any? The best SS examples from the earliest months may be the Legionaries of Rome. This is a Legion XIIII with relatively straight hair. Does...
https://www.cointalk.com/members/?type=likes Likes seem to mean little in most parts of CT. The Ancients section is relatively new to Coin Talk...
Pescennius Niger VICTOR IVST AVG [ATTACH] Next: Victory with a longer legend than just VICTORIA AVG
I doubt my SAECVLLVM NOVVM started life with any better silver that the OP coin but what happens to a 20% coin in the process of bulial and...
The coin is clearly marked XXI for one part silver and 20 parts alloy metal (mostly copper). Modern people would give a percentage like 90%...
Constantius AE2 Antioch with mintmark altered to change officina number H/Z. [ATTACH] Next: another coin with clear Christian symbol on the...
The Romans did not invent scratching their initials or name on a coin. My Sikyon stater bears a Greek Phi on each side. I do wish the owner had...
As with most people who issued large silver, Alexander Balas also had small change including this 5.5g AE18 (Sear4070) ex. Brian Kritt, 1998. If...
It is interesting that the NCAPR stamp was almost always applied in the same place on each coin type but that place was not the same for each...
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