No. You of all people would know the answer! RIC 133 Arles is a very ordinary lookiing FH2 falling horseman BUT struck in the name of...
Happy anniversary! Years ago I declared this denarius of Septimius Severus to be 'My Favorite Coin' and have written more than one page...
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I see this statement as needing two slight modifications: "The informed buyer, for whom cost is a consideration, bases his/her maximum bid on the...
I might have said Julius Caesar or any of roughly 3/4 of the guys who followed him were usurpers in some sense of the word. Trivia: What is the...
Chaos is more fun when the times are not yours. You can tell a lot about the state of civilization by the coins. This is the Antioch in Pisidia.
It is often possible to be 100% certain a coin is a fake just from a photo but it is never 100% certain the coin is good. Poor photos make many...
Lets note that the SAECVLARES AVGG animals series was one of the first to be marked with officina numbers. Workshop III struck for Philip II, IV...
My experience with Claudius provincials has not been so good. Antioch was not at a high point in their quality of workmanship. [ATTACH] Also,...
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Oddly, one of my coins from the recent Baltimore show as also a Trier Magnentius AE1. From late in the reign, Magnentius seems t have been...
I have no gold or silver to offer but will show this little bronze not seen every day: Carthage . Circa Late 4th - Early 3rd Century BC. Æ 16mm...
My contribution is a worn fourree stater of Neapolis, Macedon Circa 500-480 BC. High grade, solid ones of these are real beauties usually...
I think we all underestimate the number of people who are interested in any of these coins but have no interest in talking, sharing, showing or...
I did not see this thread until my thoughts had been quoted from my page. I had heard of the Tameanko's tong theory but always considered it...
I'd like to point out a line copied from one of the images: "The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for...
I believe we tend to overlook the pace of operations at the mint required to make the huge number of coins. Some are better; few are great. The...
Nice coin! Just for comparison: Mine has a horn and matching centering losing most of the LK. If you compare our coins to LKZ's with opposite...
My bad. It was flat on the last coin and I forgot it.
That is a great scoop! it was so deep on the obverse that the metal was too thin to fill the reverse die so we see a shadow of it in the reverse...
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