Part of the fun of a pointless endeavor is that you can set the point, more or less, that you desire and not worry about what others think. Its...
Boustrophedon writing is not all that hard to follow because the right to left lines also reversed the letters (at least the ones that make a...
In 1998, I posted a review of RIC which still has some merit. http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/book.html#ric There is also my page on...
I suppose it would be politically incorrect but it would help if people posting on CT were required to fill out the profile information so we...
Panzer is armor. If you put armor on a car, you get a tank. I suppose there is a cuirass under that drapery but I'm usually left cold by...
A feature of German that we of other opinions have trouble with is the manufacture of one word where we would use a phrase. If you insert a space...
I suppose I should mention that there are a few other rare types which are catalogued in the book by David Vagi but were left out of RIC and ERIC....
The last coin is one of the two common types we call the Anonymous Pagan series struck at Antioch about 311 AD. It shows Jupiter and Victory....
Most of your questions will be answered on the following pages. If there are still unclear matters after you have read these, please ask....
I just noticed that all my examples have facing portraits so maybe that is what attracted me. There are profile portrait Byzantines but facing is...
Curiosity question: What factor of Byzantines attracts or repels members of this list? Somewhere along the time they cover in one metal or...
http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=7571 The standard explanation of this type is Apollo standing holding a branch and resting his elbow on a...
I think this is the first time I have ever read about the capture of Valerian where the writer did not see fit to tell the follow-up after the...
Please show me a Caracalla with Antonini on the reverse. In any event, the obverse legend is an Elagabalus.
Severus Alexander. Read the clear legend IMP SEV ALE XANDER AVG compare: http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1592893
Victory (see the wings)
Elagabalus probably Aurelius Vespasian
I upgraded my 2 c/m coin to get a better strike of the PHORO mark. I remain of the opinion that the people who are reading Phromo are confusing...
Would anyone care to read the year date on this beardless Yasdgard III? He began rule at 8 and remained long enough to have a beard. I'm seeing...
Sasanian portraits are pretty distinctive but not photographic in style. Most of our ID clues come from the headgear and other trappings rather...
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