I'm a Smith not a Sith so I'm one M past your absolute. 101% fake. :inpain:
If you rotate the reverse so the top of the M points left, you can see the top of Focas' head just above the now sideways M and the letters PER...
Coins of Gallienus are perfect examples of what happens when you take a business (mint) operating well and tell the workers they have to double...
I'd call this a worthy example of an interesting type which I would be happy to welcome in my collection. Most Vota coins use a numeral rather...
Roman Collector makes a good point here. If you were looking for this coin and had to pay what someone who had it was asking, the price might be...
I can appreciate Mat's beard answer but did you notice the horse does his hair in a matching three prong manner? I fear the soldier might have...
For a reason I'll never understand the Byzantine mind allowed u as 5 but curled over the top to make Ϛ or 6. Below is a year 9 or 6+3 of Maurice...
Constantine I / two victories with shield Very little in this condition Mine is Ticinum mint. Yours is less clear but may be, too. We need...
Mythicals: Hippocamp (Neptune) [ATTACH] Gryphon (Apollo) [ATTACH] Centaur (Apollo) [ATTACH] Not part of the strict definition of the zoo...
Sabaeans 1/4 unit - These Athens imitations are available in several denominations marked by a letter on the cheek. X is on the 1/4 unit....
These are my Philips: LA Dikaiosyne Emmett 3477 [ATTACH] L gamma Serapis seated with Kerberos and Nike but neither mentioned by Emmett 3508...
You are hoping this is true. I do not care in the least. The money I have spent on hobbies, food, travel, entertainment is not expected to issue...
I had never heard of numista so I went looking and see no reason for an ancient collector to visit it. Try acsearch....
The name is clear on the obverse followed by IVN which means junior. That is followed by an abbreviation for noble Caesar. The mintmark is also...
Your coin is a very nice example of something you may not appreciate quite yet. It is a double strike. The legends are a bit garbled because...
Perhaps a few of us recall previous experiences with people asking help with ID's and then seeing those same coins on eBay a week later. The...
When Tory's book was written there was a lot less out there on these coins than now. In the last 20 years we have seen a lot more on the attire...
I copied the entire Princeton list and pasted it into an empty Open Office spreadsheet which produced a separate row for each city but put the...
I warn against your practice of quoting references like you know what they mean when in reality you have not seen that book and do not know if the...
I believe many of these were struck after his death by persons not necessarily associated with the official lifetime mint. Does anyone know of a...
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