[ATTACH] Not actually. Mine is later than Justinian by quite a bit and has a lot of remaining gold. Gold sticks to silver very well so getting...
That is the problem with Tetrarchal coins. You really have to get lucky to find things that are really different. All I have are two folles as...
These were the adoptive years so the coin showing Pius had adopted Aurelius is a good choice and not expensive compared to most two headed coins....
RELIG AVG with Mercury commemorates the miracle of the rain: http://www.livius.org/sources/content/cassius-dio/dio-on-the-rain-miracle/ [ATTACH]
After Decline and Fall... and Gladiator couldn't someone try a Roman documentary that did not star Commodus? I have always maintained that the...
I don't have one of these but there is a stander. [ATTACH] I did once get into a 'discussion' with an expert who claimed that the dots were...
Alexandria [ATTACH]
[ATTACH] We regularly make a oint that the trees shown on the hut type coins vary by the mint that produced them. While I have not done a study...
For a reason I find hard to explain, some of my greatest fun in coins came going through bags of denarii at shows offered by Jonathan Kern (before...
The way they looked at it, this meant, "I have vowed to be a good emperor for a period of 20 years." It is rather like a President of the US...
I'd say the photo is not bad at all considering the glossy surface. Red patina [ATTACH]
I had never thought of that. It would help to check fo die links with other coins from those years and see if we can date that obverse.
Maybe we were hoping you would forget you cornered the market on those. :wacky: Sinope version: [ATTACH] Steve may have the best one but I have...
My very unpopular quiz page had a question on the number nine from which the photo below is taken. [IMG] Coin B is the most common spelled out...
Later, the city Panticapaeum changed its name to Caesarea and, in 14-12 BC, issued the AE21, 5.43g coin below with Aphrodite and the new city...
Cimmerian Bosporus. Pantikapaion Æ20 Pan / Lion Date: late 4th century BC Obverse: Head of Pan left, wreathed in ivy Reverse: Π-A-N, Head of lion...
I bought this Sauromates I AE 28 thinking it might be rare in a more original sort of way. Opinion? [ATTACH]
While Constantine's coins may be more common, it is often easier to find more coins of Licinius in all grades simply because the demand is less....
It is a good looking coin and large but comparison to most of its peers. Congratulations. [ATTACH]
Mine is TRP 19 COS 6 (114-115 AD) while yours is TRP 15 COS 5 (110-111). Your first is COS 3 which was a one year spacing so is from 100 AD. We...
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