There are many different octopus coins but decent looking ones always sell over my head. My Syracuse Litra is the best I have. It is hard to be...
I am not enough of a Seleucid fan to be able to keep posting things that are different. We usually see big tetradrachms and small bronzes so I'll...
It just struck me that I have never seen a 12 Caesars set selected for being all different rather than all the same. This would require some...
We hear repeatedly that this hoard contained Roman coins but the images sow only Celtic. It would seem that Roman coins of the century before the...
I'm an amateur and must have seen a hundred of these so I can imagine how many crossed the path of Barry and the many dealers who are tasked to...
Great group. My goat is having a bad day compared to those animals tasked to pull vehicles. [ATTACH] My pig is just for oth swearing. While I...
Sanity is overrated; unless the money means something to you (like food), why not? I look forward to every coin you post. Some of us look...
I appreciate any effort made to explain to those of us who are not Domitian specialists (am I the only one who does not consider him most...
This comes up so often that I am ready to say we should change the way we name someone even though he has been called that by historians for a...
Please elaborate on the difference. [ATTACH]
Thanks for the clarification. I missed the fact that the 'coin' as first posted was a continental sterling and not an English penny. I had read...
I don't think these were made evenly across the reign even during the full years. The majority I have seen have been AN VII. Often it seems...
The opposite. When Alexandria fell into the control of Septimius they issued the type used at Rome the year before but changed ti legend to honor...
Legion III Augusta was located in Africa. The Legion III intended here was LEG III Italica. If you look at the Wikipedia page on III Italica,...
I do not know much about these. I was unaware of a 3/4 portrait. Are these rare or is this a toolie?
I believe you touched for the reason for this seeming inconsistency when you pointed out that many/most of these differences are gradual changes...
I have no silver and do not know where the legends begin on the silver types. Are they base in or base out? On my Aretas IV and Shaqilat AE...
Finding a smiling monarch on a coin is hard. Both Carausius and Allectus are happy as shown by their use of Laetitia reverses. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Is anyone going to ask about a second century Maximianus? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Valerius_Maximianus The article says it is not...
Not long ago I decided that I did not need to collect late Romans different only by officina and even got rid of some that were different by mints...
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