My Caesar offering (as usual a repeat since most of my coins have been shown here over the last decade) is a fourree issued by Octavian when he...
Owls are popular items so can cost a bit more. The same coin in the same condition but some boring person standing there would sell for less...
A warning to parents who feel the need to control whom your child marries: It can come back and bite you even if you are right. Plautilla was...
Gades AE27 /2 fish left 2nd-1st century BC [ATTACH] Next: A coin showing two fish swimming in opposite directions or around in a circle...
Seems like you don't need help to do the research. Yours would not sell for quite that much due to the tight flan but the price you paid was not...
I share the fondness for the Eastern style coins. Barbarous? LIBERTAS when showing Liberalitas and the obverse lack of AVG makes that likely....
RIC X is organized completely differently that volumes I to IX. They realized that there was benefit keeping things together when half of the...
The write-up was fine but needs to include a survey of the history of false coins under this name. "Slightly tooled" would scare away some people...
Obviously, Caligula. He was exerting a great act of piety dedicating the great temple to the Divine Augustus as shown on the other side of the...
Reverses were considered appropriate for either men or women at Rome so the scholars assumed the rule was the same in the Eastern mints and...
There is more than one die with this error. I do not have it but there is also an Alexandria mint version as I recall. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
Are you suggesting that any faults on the coin might be attributed to prior use as a banjo pick?
This is not an entry for the Procopius siliqua. I do not have one but CNG has sold several including the $280 Becker forgery below. I will be...
Around the world, officials are debating whether to send kids back to school which might be dangerous to their physical health or to leave them at...
The old saying is that the only thing worse than being the king's enemy is to be his brother. How many examples of this can we find in history?
RIC VII, page 419 discusses the five marks including this one but has a dedicated type face for each and does not use a name when discussing their...
This Septimius type is one that leave no doubt about who is shown on the reverse. Note also the boots. I find the differences in the altars on...
I believe that 'jaunty' is a good word for this ship. It has a small sail, two standards and even some water lacking in earlier versions....
I am sure I have shown all these before but they seem to pertain to some degree. First are the Septimius and Domna versions of the OP coin....
Are there other coins of this period with Caesar spelled out? Is this official?
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