My contribution (as with most of my coins shown here many times before) from Arados was dated in exergue to OE or year 75 (185 BC) but I only know...
When I count my many failures in life, I will list being unable to get people off the worship of the RIC rarity numbers. I have explained how it...
If a rabbit being eaten by eagle is totally out of the question, the Messana / Rhegion types are all I know. There are a few types with the...
I agree. My SMNA Nikomedia shows the isolated Chi Rho and decorated shield was not just from one mint. While mine is nowhere as nice as RC's it...
I have not seen the new RIC II so I have no idea how they list my common one with Victory left. I was attracted to it by the portrait style - not...
There is nothing even slightly Christian about this legend since the god referred to here is Caesar. This legend is a translation of CAESAR DIVI F.
Crazy? --- like a fox. Mine is a completely different legend. From the last FSR sale AE22 6.46g ΚΑΙΑΡΟΣ ΣΕΒΑΣΤ [ATTACH] I really need to do a...
What is the value of a fake? To the criminal, it is defined by what the sucker can be cheated into paying. To the student, it is what can be...
My Brutus is related but different and fourree, too. It was $45 but that was before there were Euros. [ATTACH]
Roman Collector's Gallienus is a good example of the then fashionable letter forms where N was shown as III. [ATTACH]
The thing I find interesting about Flavian Imperial bronzes is the fabric variations as they relate to both types and denominations. There are...
For most of us, it is hard to imagine a dekadrachm we would not be thrilled to own. I would be interested in hearing what imperfections you find...
For the price, it is hard to beat these chunky coins with interesting fabric. Probus: [IMG] My favorites are the Septimius Severus and Julia...
As often is the case with ancients, there are several variations that some of us will feel the urge to have while others won't care. I am fond of...
The problem I pointed out in the first place is the turning of one way of expressing a number into the only way with any other variation being...
I see Greek numerals as more sensical than what we use today since there was a different figure for each column you did not need to keep columns...
I hate to see kids taught that because the Romans did not do something the way their text book simplified it that the Romans were wrong. Whlle IIX...
Mithradates II drachms are easy to like. I have shown mine here way too often. I need to shoot a new detail shot of the critter on his torc....
We seem to lack a representation of the Roman Provincials. Severus Alexander Atioch AE33 [ATTACH] Maximinus I Ninica Claudiopolis AE31 [ATTACH]
There are several variations on these as we;; but not the 2200 or so FH. Compare decorations on altar and PL flanking captives. [ATTACH]
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