There are several bust styles for Decius. This is not the most common one. I don't know enough about it to doubt the coin. Below is the closest...
It was edged and hammered to make a decoration inset in something but I can't prove when it was done. My gut feeling is within the last century...
The hardest point to get across is that these coins are not what we today think of as coins but served the purposes today handled by paper money,...
Carus' posthumous coins also come in an eagle version (also undated). [ATTACH] Carinus is hard to find with clear legends. My obverse is not so...
I see no reason to doubt them based on the images. I think you may fail to appreciate just how bad things can be when people don't care....
The text of the catalog does state that the find spot was not known and that there were only a bit over half of the hoard listed in the catalog....
I was wrong about the second coin. It is Saloninus with legend starting SAL as on this one from acsearch:...
The honest answer is probably that we don't know but I have a theory. "When the cat's away, the mice will play." Earliest issues from Rome were...
We have something in commo. This is my only Venetian. [ATTACH]
http://www.akropoliscoins.com/page8.html I have found use in the page linked above which lists the magistrates used by various rulers. It is most...
I have always wanted one of these that has a snake on the helmet rather than the foliage. Anyone have one? Some have plain helmets and many are...
Do we know of a specific earthquake that may have caused the issue of these coins? It would seem an appropriate issue if a major city had been...
I was told once by a know-it-all coin dealer/Dr. that the only coins of Septimius worth owning were the ones from Rome because the ones from...
Most of my holed coins fall into the same category as maridvnvm's Commodus: I'd rather they did not have the hole. There are a few, however,...
I'm sorry for what you may find a bad attitude but, if you read the listing and still have any desire to 'trade' with the seller, you get what you...
Fair Warning: Annia Faustina, wife of Elagabalus and rare of coin was the great granddaughter of another Annia Faustina who we know better as...
This was my first RR coin which I already had when I started numbering my coins in 1987. I paid $44 so I think the 30 years probably covered my...
The regular one with grain ears: [ATTACH]
Unless someone has reworked the question since I studied it years ago, coins of older brother Valerian II lacked the name Saloninus as part of the...
Lets remember that a photo is the intellectual property of the photographer or his employer and rights to a photograph does not pass to the...
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