Gallus is correct the other two are swapped. Here are three more, which is (are) Constantius II? [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Hint, he ruled for...
Honest now! Who saw the legend error on one of my Emesa coins above?
Martin covered Laodicea well. Emesa issued Parthian coins with dated legends but you can recognize the hats on the captives as Parthian....
Mine is different but similar in having a snake (with human head) and Pius. It came from CNG in 1990 (XII,226) which explains the $41 (delivered)...
arnoldoe's coin is a particularly decent coin despite the well detailed (!) but low obverse. The vast majority of these are missing all or part...
More: From the same show as the Ardashir but a different seller is a coin like you would expect me to buy but most people would not appreciate. I...
Looking at the choices I made in this bracket, I suffer more buyer's remorse and do not see most as particularly good choices for the money. I am...
Me, too, also! While my tolerance for tooling stops a long time before it gets to this level, I see absolulely no reason to believe the coin...
Just a word to remind all that Maximinus comes in Provincials as well. This AE29 with Ares is from Anchialus. [ATTACH]
Anything goes on Provincials. Every die was an original. My Septimius goes retrograde in the exergue. [ATTACH]
https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B0014XR9QA/ref=tmm_pap_used_olp_sr?ie=UTF8&condition=used&qid=1505605897&sr=8-1 Several times we have...
I believe the Mars version is considerably more scarce. Many of us seem to have Sol. [ATTACH]
We might also note that there was plenty of coined money in Italy starting in the 6th century. The US went for quite a while using foreign coins...
I have a Septimius denarius with green patina but not a Parthian coin of that color so someone else can post that one. [ATTACH]
I always got a kick out of them using the same OR to end one word and start the next. The earliest I have is Valerian. The joke was getting old...
I agree but can not name the undertype. I believe the zeno.ru undertype may be Valentinian rather than Valens judging from the spacings....
The 12 1/2 coins were made at mints controlled by Licinius. Constantine did not support the revaluation but we do see coins of his issued at...
I agree. When there are thousands of minor variations you start thinking of a coin you have seen before as common. Most of us start defining...
It is a Sikhote Alin. These come in two types regmaglypted and shrapnel. This one shows the two type characteristics on opposite sides probably...
Keep your eyes open. They are not rare. There are fourree Croesids and electrums from the earliest period. If they made it, someone faked it....
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