This is my (only) CONSTANTI---VS MAX from Alexandria. Does anyone have a CONSTANS MAX? I don't. [ATTACH] I just realized my inset photo cropped...
According to RIC, it is Constantine II unless you read the footnotes. Of course we have to allow for the possibility that the same die was...
I find participating in CT educational. Sometimes you learn something new; sometimes you are reminded of something you had seen before and might...
As luck would have it, I have been looking for one of these but the problem is that coins of the period are very low grade silver and many look...
My local Library has a sale each Fall where they dispose of donations received that they choose not to put in normal circulation. Last week I...
Any collector of any old coins might enjoy looking at maps of the regions that made the coins. We tend to think of the world as divided as it is...
I doubt I am alone in thinking I would like these coins with so many letters/symbols in the field better if I had any clue what they meant. We...
This ticket troubles me. This coin type was part of lot 624 in the JQA sale. 1140 is the Sydenham catalog number for the coin type. Sydenham was...
I have a question more about coins that do not tone than those that do. Some (few?) of you recall silverware that was silver (not stainless) and...
I agree. Time will tone.
Remember the lines between AE1 and AE2 (and all the others) are very artificial and easily crossed with a slightly heavier strike. I'd stop short...
There are quite a few coins that straddle the line between the Byzantines and the neighboring Islamic lands. We tend to just lump the most normal...
Sorry to be late but I was not coining last evening when these would have been appropriate. The first is a stater or didrachm I have had for a...
Thief!
I have to wonder if fifty years from now it will hard to find the plated coins. If history doubles back on itself and people start collecting from...
I suspect many of us have a 'box'. My box has been changed before but not for about 30 years now so it is time judging from the split corner....
[ATTACH] ...another but this from Antioch ANTB.
The number of works on that list should give a clue as to why we need the RPC online or in book form. As a spectator, I can hardly wait to see...
I really doubt the smaller denominations circulated much at all after about 200 AD. Many may have been special purpose issues for donatives and...
I believe dies were engraved by one cutter and officina letters were often added later as needed not necessarily by the same cutter. It makes...
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