Bronze drachms of the time of Pius are large to be worth 1/4 of the smaller tetradrachms made of lower grade silver than was use in denarii but...
I like to think that our young numismatists will find something better to do with their lives than undertake a completely thankless and impossible...
I can not identify the coin but am rather sure it is brass not gold. It appears that it is either Roman or a cast fake of one. In that...
Once again we each need to ask, "So what?" We each will have an answer. To me, legend spacings and placements of letters in the field mean...
I'll second this recommendation and particularly like the fact that it can be taken in small doses. I am, however, not a big fan of historical...
Don't. It is stressful when you find out after forty years that your coin is not the only one as you have always believed.
No book that gives numbers seen is likely to have them all. After all, no one asked us if we have one, did they? I do not know how hard or where...
The reverse of many Provincial coins is the genitive plural of the city name here meaning "of the (people of) Ulpian Anchialus". Ulpian refers...
The OP coin was an AE1 of the tetrarchy so the Constantius I (second coin) fits but the three AE3's of Constantinian kids are too small and too...
There may be no emperor for whom that is more right than Valerian. His joint reign with son Gallienus saw the lowest quality silver used for...
simple answer: http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/coinphoto2011ez3.html second half of page The secret of black is not to allow light to...
The Galerius has a particularly menacing look on his face.
I would like to thank all of you who chose not to outbid me on the eBay coin that the post office delivered today. I really did not expect to win...
Four fourrees from the late Republic (Imperatorial) and early Imperial periods: Brutus honored his ancestors who had killed tyrants (Brutus the...
Agrippa and Augustus, Nemausus [ATTACH] Septimius Severus and Julia Domna, Stratonicea (with countermark removed) [ATTACH] Caracalla and Julia...
Many of these seem to suffer from doublestriking on the reverse. Steve's is exceptionally clear; mine suffers from the offset reverse but the...
Check with your wife before wearing a radiate crown around the house. She might take it the wrong way and we would not want that. :rolleyes:
Yes but you have the less common hair flowing in the breeze obverse. Yours also has a mintmark on both sides that needs to be investigated. I...
While not 100% effective, Carus portraits tend to show a greater degree of forehead exposure (baldness) that the others with whom he might be...
The missing letter is B honoring the second neocourate temple (temple to the Imperial cult - a big deal in the day). There are many reverses of...
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