If the emperor gave you a medallion like today Presidents of the US give out Presidential Medals of Freedom, you probably did not weigh it or...
Since MM saved me the trouble of posting mine, I'll just add that I like trigas, too. I trust everyone noticed that the coin exists with moneyers...
I believe you have correctly diagnosed the situation. The coin was much abused, horridly overcleaned and glued poorly. I suspect it is genuine....
When did the Caesarea year begin? In Alexandria the end of August start means Geta died only a few months into year 20. I do not have a Caesarea...
I was in a bad mood a couple years ago and sold some coins that were not duplicates that I have never replaced with better ones. Someone here...
Galla Placidia was the daughter of Theodosius I, not his mother.
There is nothing wrong with posting what interests you. Considering that my posts outnumber my coins by a factor of six, I suspect I have posted...
Without it being stated explicitly, I believe RIC divided the three Periods based on style with some reverses being used in more than one period...
I have not but I can't stretch my imagination to call it a dupondius.
At what point does Murine become Millefiori?
Barbs are more fun the worse they are. My worse is a left facer with reverse showing Fortuna with a rudder. [ATTACH]
Thanks for starting a thread on an emperor not done here over and over again. I wish we had a count of who has been featured and who has not. I...
My fourree set lacks Caligula and Galba but has two Augustus and Tiberius. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
Every time we revisit these I as but still do not know the meaning of AD on this Claudius as. Maybe I'll get lucky and we will get a new person...
On this page we have seen three Phocas coins 12.26, 12.02 and trimmed to 11.4. While I agree that standards were not enforced as you expect in...
More often we see these overstrikes clipped down to the new weight standard like my 11.4g coin. Perhaps yours was on a smaller coin to start...
While you are looking at these Viminacium coins, keep an eye out for similar coins for the Province of Dacia that are year dated using a different...
Imperial coins made to circulate everywhere do not have the city name on the reverse. Viminacium was a full Colony so was allowed Latin language...
At the time Rome had plenty of backup with two adults and a capable Crispus so I suspect the inclusion of Licinius and Constantine II was more for...
A philosophy question: Which is better? 1. a set of twelve matched denomination and grade coins even if they are less than the best - that means...
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