For my part, Voulgaroktonou has provided the best possible answer here. If I knew I were to die later today AND if I were to be allowed to hold...
I'm not so sure I would call this defensive as much as stating a fact. In the first place, this is not full face but three quarters which would...
I declared my favorite coin decades ago and retired the jersey when I stopped updating my web pages. Of the coins I have added in the current...
I am completely unaware of recent studies on these coins but can offer things that may just be outdated .... or not. The mints for these coins...
http://www.akropoliscoins.com/page8.html For those new to consular legates, the above is a good resource. The page is a service of a coin...
Trajan was emperor 98-117 AD. Trajan Decius was, as you say, 249-251. When the name Trajan is used by itself, it always means the great, earlier...
This statement points out we have visitors from the modern hobby here on the ancient board. I do occasionally hear someone express the opinion...
I don't know the coin and will leave the leg work to you but a Provincial would be more likely to have an emperor on the obverse suggesting this...
When this Akragas eagle tore open his rabbit supper, bloody red patina splattered all over his green tummy. :inpain: [ATTACH] This Commodus of...
The ones above show her during her lifetime. Below is a posthumous denaius with peacock. [ATTACH]
While you are right about the coin's faults, that is a great goat. I'll offer a Greek goat coin. TIF beat me to the other one I like....
I would start by researching the existence of the items you want. I have not looked for these but would almost be surprised if all these cities...
I have never heard of the figure called Decius. It is considered the personification of the province of Dacia. [ATTACH]
Really? Everyone knows the five from 238 AD and the five from 68-69 AD but you don't care in the least about 193 AD? Pertinax, Didius Julianus,...
IMHO this coin does not come in 'cull'. TIF can point out she has better ones but coins grading fine or better belong in Triton level sales and...
While we each play this our own way, I prefer to show coins that have not already been shown in this thread. Otho was taken with the same coin I...
Authors of our standard references seem to have a problem accepting the fact that branch mints did not follow the 'rules' they have recognized as...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_churches_of_Asia I just discovered that L. ad Mare isn't the one you want either. They had a prominent...
Beware of the fact that there were several towns with the same names in different places. Laodicea ad Mare and Laodicea Combusta were both named...
The capricorn is more obvious on the larger sestertius. [ATTACH]
Separate names with a comma.
