When I said I don't collect them, I meant that people who DO collect would be able to read and make comments like we see from TypeCoin971793. My...
It would be nice to know what was in the mind of the person who cut the die. I'd never call this an error but rather a variation but not knowing...
My first guess would be a Provincial drachm of either Tiberius or Caligula and Divus Augustus (radiate) from an eastern city (perhaps Caesarea)....
If you study the history of this period in Byzantine history to the end a century later, you may be taken with the question how they managed to...
I guess I am one who disagrees with that opinion. I disagree with TIF's acceptance of that group in the hobby who value coins only as investment...
I never understood the helmet unless she was pining for Mars her lover. The apple of love makes more sense but I suspect the original statur from...
Rhegion, Bruttium Asklepios and Hygieia / Artemis and deer AE Trias https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=188056 You will see many more of...
I envy you modern collectors if in fact you have books to cover everything. I collect ancients and have several hundred bound paper things but to...
1. Even today we honor dead heros with coins. Look at all our dead Presidents on money. Kennedy was gone for a few months when the first half...
I picked up this Vitellius as an example of his early issues with portrait resembling Otho. [ATTACH]
Between time and places, official and not, there are so many variations of these I can not claim to sort them out. It is a subject that could use...
Steve, perhaps it is time for a common Domna??? [IMG] or a rare Septimius? [ATTACH] ...or a die linked pair which I have not seen again:...
Perhaps this thread is showing hoth2 correct since you have been showing coins of Augustus (cheap or not) rather than later rulers. I have shown...
There are no coins from the time of the founding but Romulus as an adult does appear on this Hadrian denarius. [ATTACH]
I only can disagree with one point on your post. Your hippocamp strikes me as correctly graded at 5/5 4/5 recognizing the perfect reverse strike...
Certainly being the same coin stripped of its patina by a previous owner. The old photo looks like it has a smooth green patina but there is raw...
There are cheap Provincials. Part of it may be that the demand for them is low and fewer people deal in them. Augustus was in power for a long...
There are several types that are always left facing. Many right facing types have a rare few left facers but I'm not aware of a regularly left...
[IMG] The first is a cast fake of the Toronto group. The style is OK because the casts were made from a genuine coin but all the fakes made that...
For what it is worth, these are to scale but they fail to allow for thickness (Probus is thicker than Diocletian) or alloy. The Severus Alexander...
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