While some of the letters after II may look like mu, the meaning of the letter is 'half' referring to Licinius's reduction of the value of the...
Dacia also comes in a DACIA FELIX version. [ATTACH]
I prefer calling them the Adoptive Emperors and adding a Lucius Verus. Of course, you could add a Commodus just to show what happens when you...
Has anything been said about how many volumes and parts will be published or is this another start that will never be completed?
For the benefit of new folks seeing this, the Romulus here is the son of Maxentius not the founder of Rome.
I agree. When you discuss specific lots openly you drive up the price rightly or not for whchever of our group was already bidding on that lot....
It is interesting that they used MAPK where we usually expect just M. At Rome, there were few praenomen spelled beyond the standard abbreviation...
I have always liked my worn Ptolemy II especially for its overdate ΛΔ / ΛΓ but especially because it came from a collector who passed long ago but...
Even being a little heavy, it seems to be as you say from the countermarked type in Ptolemy IV - Series 5 - Kyrene Denomination Series. TIF's link...
I see one major difference between ancient and modern coins that makes slabbing much more appealing for moderns. The difference between two...
My advice to those new to ancients is to bring to the endeavor as few preconceived notions from you experience in modern coins as you possibly...
I bought this Constantius I follis as an ancient cast product of such molds. [ATTACH]
That is a nice coin. The large drachms must have circulated a lot. We see them quite worn. Mine is a Hadrian. [ATTACH]
Nice drachms are harder to find than tetradrachms. My first coin of Athens was also a drachm a bit over 30 years ago. Yours is much better....
There was a time I worried about how my site looked on different size screens and with different browsers but I soon came t a point that I decided...
My similar coin shows Elagabalus and Julia Maesa and a minor variation of the reverse legend. It uses first Iȣ as does your but the second time...
I tried video a while back and decided it was way more work than it was worth to me and that my career as a reader of text was over before it...
Does anyone have a comment/explanation on what purpose was served by the V on the reverse here and the P on the reverse of some coins of Postumus?...
http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/ http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/project/ Watch the above site for more volumes as they are done. We have to realize that...
The problem here is that certification of the pair would cost more than the fair value of the coins. It would be better for you to find sources...
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