Z means the coin was made by the 7th officina. On the left coin, delta meand fourth officina but of Heraclea mint. Your Crispus is Mars and was...
[ATTACH] This as was issued when Commodus was Caesar (175-176 AD).
Some of us do collect errors but we seek more obvious things. Even then we don't pay extra unless a coin is very special AND high grade. Obverse...
Yes to both. The larger coins especially were struck with more than one blow of a heavy hammer. A bounce would make a little doubling. Some...
While you are right that I prefer coins not in slabs, this one is a decent coin and has appropriate information as well as grading I can live...
I apologize to those who discovered the croc last year when I went croc crazy. http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/impossible.html I still...
More than usual it strikes me that the link given above http://www.acsearch.info/search.htm...1&ot=1&images=1¤cy=usd&order=0&company= shows...
We would have made things a lot easier on collectors if we had called the second Maximianus Maximianus II instead of Galerius. I doubt anyone...
Maximianus was never Caesar so coins with his name and NOB CAES belong to his adopted son and Caesar whom we call Galerius. There must have been...
If you are gathering these, look for bronzes and family coins, too. The year dates on family use Septimius' years so E is 198 no matter whose...
Constans, Antioch mint.
The scene as I see it shows Rome resettling certain barbarians into border lands marginally under the control of Rome. These settlements would be...
1736 would make this more appropriate in the World Coin section. I do not know enough about the coin to state that it is a replica but it does...
A highlight of MM is that he was the first Christian emperor to order the execution of Christians for heresy. He was ahead of his time as this...
My guess is polishing file marks on the reverse die before engraving that were not polished as well as usual.
To me, the interesting part is the way a different tree 'grew' at each mint. In some cases there are different trees from the same mint as well...
I just realized I contradicted myself saying 'rarity' is not important and that rarity explains the greater price of the miliarense. Rarity when...
OK, lets get real here. Both of these coins are silver not bronzes and there is a huge difference in price/demand/supply for solid silver of the...
It means when the editors of the standard catalogs surveyed large public collections inside their circle of friends, they found that exact type in...
[IMG] Many Roman coins commemorated something. The best is certainly the commemorative issued by Brutus on the murder of Julius Caesar. Among...
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