I believe this reverse was used by many and without legend, we are down to portrait. I'll guess Elagabalus but there is no reason it could not be...
As a general rule, I consider it good to pick up common or cheap coins that have clear legends and types. In general dealers don't ask for more...
The coin is from Arados with Zeus on the obverse. The front of the prow has a triple can opener for use in ramming other ships. Above it are...
Year 33, I think, but the mint letters don't match any on my list. I do not claim any skill with this script! I avoid buying these unless I...
The recent group I bought was 10 assorted of which I got 8 types. These photos show the surface conditions which make me wonder if the OP coin...
I don't know. That is the point. I don't think anyone knows but the latest books on the subject seem to be going with III. To make it worse, I...
Seeing some of my photos on that site reminded me I have a page of Elymais but it is a fine example of why you can't believe everything you read...
Believe what you wish. I see nothing here I can accept without more information. The word has been used for several different things and these...
I would guess Orodes III, Second Century AD van't Haaff page 131, type 16.1 The reverse legend is odd in that the name YPWDHC reads correctly...
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The back of Frank Robinson's current list still offers fixed price Elymais from $4 to $12 he calls 'picked from a hoard'. I strongly suspect the...
Yours is within what I consider official but I do admit there are crude officials and better barbarous that are not too far apart. I believe this...
I believe there are more barbarous copies of Tetricus II than there are regular, official ones. JA's coin is the nicest I have seen; the OP coin...
I would have called this Melqart rather than Hercules. That is not saying I have not missed the revision of this ID....
Brutus the elder and Ahala - both ancestors of Brutus the assassin who had killed tyrants in their day so he honored them a decade before he...
Constantine the Great and Sol (a pre Christian type) [ATTACH]
Caracalla and Julia Domna with Serapis from Marcianopolis [ATTACH]
Antoninus Pius with his adopted son Marcus Aurelius, denarius [ATTACH]
A local magazine article on a goat farmer provided the information that the average American (North, South, just US???) consumes 1.5 pounds of...
I think I agree with Bing's take on this. The first hundred coins you try to ID will be a lot harder than the 100,000th. I have not been...
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