27mm makes it Hartill 16.436 and 2 cash
Forgive my intrusion on the US side (I collect ancients) but I need help only a US collector might know. My coin scales stopped working so I...
Selecting a ruler based on who their father was rarely went well for the Romans but it is a lesson never learned. If there was an exception, it...
As I see it, they probably struck a few of each legion that supported Septimius in April 193 and then continued for a longer time only for the...
Possibly a bit of die slippage between hammer blows or the smallest doublestrike caused by a die bounce. Errors in ancients need to be really...
Great coin! Remember some of us don't sit at home waiting for new postings so allow a few hours for lavish praise when you post nice coins....
http://www.beastcoins.com/RomanImperial/IV-III/GordianIII/GordianIII.htm
The problem with being an online, free answer-man is that one foul up erases 100 correct answers so the one point you get for Faustina leaves you...
Septimius Severus denarius - RIC 003 Obv:– IMP CAE L SEP SEV PERT AVG, Laureate head right Rev:– LEG I ITAL / TR P COS, Legionary eagle between...
Few realize how rare this coin is. Both are better than mine by a great amount. I still have trouble with how RIC failed to recognize the...
What about these non Senior coins? [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Note the last one shows the obverse legend ending in BAEATISS. acsearch shows a couple of...
The Byzantine emperors were named Romanus. Romulus was a boy who died in 309 AD as well as the first king and last Western Emperor. Romulus,...
[ATTACH] Another way of keeping the cost down is to opt for a smaller coin. This is a 0.6g litra. Note it has considerable reticulation...
I don't believe in guru polling but encourage you to buy what speaks to you as long as the coins are genuine (these are) and not ridiculously...
I'll agree that both are nice but not great bargains. The Constantine suffers in my book (and probably in rather few others) from the defective...
Pompey (fourree) [ATTACH]
Procopius [ATTACH]
On the obverse are the letters ARG PVB indicating the coin was struck from public silver as a special issue (usually for some special project or...
That is a particularly well detailed Minerva on the reverse. Note the breast plate details.
Quiz time: Sometimes there is another reason to buy a common Roma/quadriga coin. The style is not bad but not as good as the biga Pulcher. Who...
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