These come in two sizes. My larger one (top) is 7.0g while the smaller is 4.3g. They are usually called asses and semises but I agree that the...
For some reason, it often seems the non-Nero side is done in better style than the Nero. Maybe Alexandria realized they had little to work with...
I like my well centered Justinian half follis from Antioch from the issue that used full follis obverse dies so I have no obverse legend at all....
This is a subject that need to die without further discussion. Curtis Clay declared the Emesa dots to be meaningless accidents or decorations...
I always have the same answer when this question is asked: Neither. You choose when a coin is rare or when price makes all the difference. You...
Hardest dots for me to understand are those placed in the middle of words. MONETA.E AVG [ATTACH] VICT A.VG. (Anyone have an SS victory on...
I have a special fondness for these initialed issues. Mine is a bit later issued in the time of Thomas Cranmer, who had the misfortune of living...
And how many do you think read that article, Victor? In all honesty, I believe we need to consider the fact that the silvering process had to be...
The unfortunate fact is that you will not get, today, what you paid for a coin at 'recent auction'. Many collectors/dealers are looking for that...
Even with normal engraving of each letter, the field disturbance from pushing around the metal could change the metal enough to cause wear that...
It did not stop at the neck. Shoulders: [ATTACH]
The earliest coins of Aurelian were just as poorly made as late Gallienus on small flans. Shortly afterward he straightened out the problems at...
It isn't quite that simple. At the risk of being overly educational and definitely being too lazy to look it up (you can do that): Alexandria...
Actually, your Diocletian is nicer than most of these you see with easily readable letters. The reverse is Eirene holding olive branch and scepter.
Now that we have pinned down the coin correctly, let's learn from the error. Alexandria was a particularly poor guess. As a general rule (there...
I would say it is very likely it was made in an Eastern area. For one thing, at that period of history, most of the action was East not West.
Demonstrating the point: Vespasian's name starts at the upper right OVEΣΠΑΣΙΑΝΟΣ on this tetradrachm from Antioch. [ATTACH] Less clear is my...
Diadumenian, Marcianopolis Artemis with hound [ATTACH] Julia Domna denarius Laodicea Diana Lucifera [ATTACH] Antoninus Pius like the zumbly...
We all have reputations. Ours is that we are more trouble than we are worth because we complain when we are treated like trash. We are...
The Greek way of spelling Latin words that begin with V (like Vespasian) used an O so OICTOR is not hard to accept if you pronounce it 'wicktor'....
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