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While I am not planning a tattoo either, I do believe that the best source for coin line art would be some of the old books illustrated with line...
[IMG] Correct including the spelling!
Then one might take the other meaning of 'mint set' and try for a set of coins from various mints. Byzantium, Asia, Ephesis (who has others?)....
I do not have the reference at hand but believe there was a hoard found where every coin was different. That does not mean that it was a type set...
As I see it, there are five Faustinas needed for a short set. Faustina I comes in lifetime and posthumous as does Faustina II but the younger has...
...and perfectly centered. This period is not a place you can assume full legends.
While it is only an opinion, I believe that my Otho fourree was produced by the same faker as the OP Vitellius. This made part of me want the...
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Should I wait for the pic of both sides or is 'yup' what we get? This one is my coin. I'm running out of ones I consider fair that are not...
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/Augustus*.html#75 It is not much but above is the Suetonius passage.
Constantine I
A dealer asking for as much as he can is to be expected. The toxic behavior is when people pay the price because they do not care about the money...
I know we have record of Augustus showing interest in old coins. I always considered the Trajan restitution series evidence that someone cared...
Whenever I see an interesting coin from a source that is new to me, I look up what else they have for sale and what they have sold recently. In...
A question from one with very few high grade coins in his collection: What is the purpose of the 'extra' dots on some of these coins? The...
Domitian?
This is a very difficult question. To post correctly, you need to know something about the coin but I certainly don't. I started ignoring the...
That is Divus Constantius I. [ATTACH]
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