Small silver from Kolophon used the abbreviations for denominations. Below are HM for hemiobol and TE for tetartemorion. No it is not spelled...
A question that will serve to return this thread to page one: The Caesar coin here is getting high praise deservedly for History and Beauty....
Perhaps that is why some of us don't care for the competitive by price idea and perhaps why the rules had to be changed to comply with CT rules....
Correct. Show me one. The British Museum has one and had it when listed by Cohen. Akerman (1834) listed the cippus aureus but not the hippo....
Lots do not necessarily require cleaning. They tend to be coins that the seller does not see as worth lotting separately. These days when so many...
This is the common variation with E-P split. Mine is officina 11 rather than 1. I do not know if Randy's variation come in all workshops or not....
In case anyone is wanting to put Steve in his place, there is a listing in RIC for a hippo aureus but the listing claiming to show one in the...
You should tell us all what it is about the coin that makes it stand out from the common coins of that mint and type.
As TIF pointed out, there are some great coins in this sale that will probably slip beneath the radar because of the number of bidders who would...
Septimius Severus / Mars Pater with both on both sides. [ATTACH]
Carausius tried to gain favor with Diocletian and Maximianus by issuing coins in their names and matching ones in his own name with reverse legend...
Today's mail brought four coins I bought as a group lot. I don't usually go for lots when they are illustrated only with one photo showing a pile...
This is something we all need to realize about billon whether from this period or others. It is a really lousy material to use for coins. Pure...
Argentii of the first group are nice because of the good metal but it was not long before the old debasement monster came to visit and the idea...
Warren shows the later type III style like mine below. They also come in Type IV but I don't have one. I have not seen a Type I fourree. I...
Caracalla from Marcianopolis [ATTACH]
I don't have any coins from the pre-design period solid or plated. These are two of my earlier ones. Persia 1/3 siglos type II mid 5th century...
I don't see this as a problem since there will be a similar number who don't like medieval or whatever the other choice is cancelling you out. I...
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/neros-banquets-baiae/3411/ If you have not seen the PBS TV series Secrets of the Dead episode on Nero's Sunken...
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