Lets also remember that many of these emperors were never in the owns where the mint was located and some dies might have been made with word...
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Caria. Antiocheia ad Maeander . Pseudo-autonomous issue Circa AD 238-268. Bronze IEΡA CYNKΛHTOC, draped bust of the Senate right / ANTIOXEΩN,...
The earliest antoninianus is Caracalla and last are the pre-reform coins of the first Tetrarchy. I'll show a Galerius Caesar. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
You Greek alphabet chart is missing the sixth letter S or Ϛ which was 6 and Q which was 90. Those letters were used in archaic Greek but fell out...
I share mine too much but it is a Trajan Decius antoninianus (Pannonia reverse) overstruck on a denarius of Geta thus doubling its face value....
I have too many specialties to post all but will offer two coins that cover three specialties (the third being strange coins): Septimius Severus...
Good post. I'll question the statement that the full AE1 follis is the least expensive coin but the big ones are definitely the ones to buy. I'm...
Topcat7 showed very good photos in his 2016 post and I assume is even better now after a couple years practice. The real secret to photography of...
Nice Pegasus, Bing.
Clavdivs showed one example of a mythological animal included in the zoo. Lets show a few others. Gryphon [ATTACH] Centaur with globe and lyre...
Domitian / Spes walking left Mine is a sestertius. Is yours smaller? [ATTACH]
I wish I had started learning about ancient coins when I was 7. Maybe the difference between 7 and 14 would have made me smarter now??? What I...
Value depends on what is left when the BD is gone. Ask again in five years.
While better, I prefer the obverse shot which has the light coming from the upper right while the reverse is pretty much dead on from the right....
TXXT is the third workshop (tertia) of the mint at Ticinum. The XX is unusual and used only at Ticinum. Most others used XXI to indicate there...
TIF has the lovely one. Whether they are tigers, panthers or other cats, I can not say. Very few show any body details like hers. A couple...
Much better! The single biggest change that can improve phone or point and shoot camera coin photos is to turn off options that make decisions...
I was enlisted. I can't afford a heart of gold. I'm fourree. [ATTACH] [MEDIA]
My first thought is why anyone who has: "done a good deal of macro photography with digital SLR cameras (flowers, insects, that sort of thing)"...
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