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Question Group Six - Numbers: [IMG] We all know Roman numerals but the Romans did not always use Roman numerals for every purpose. All five of...
If you decide to go for a year set with Charlemagne, the Islamic of choice would be Harun al Rashid who exchanged gifts with Charlemagne but is...
I suspect that the reverse right legends were only touched up but the left and obverse were created from scratch. There is a little taper from...
There are coins made from an alloy of gold and silver known as electrum. That color is light gold and the gold feel remains. White gold is...
That is not a flippant answer but the full truth. Any collector needs to become familiar with gold before buying any coin claiming to be gold....
How about when when Carthage completely destroyed Akragas in 405 BC and placed a countermark on the old, worn AE coins in circulation? [ATTACH]...
[ATTACH] Byzantine and unusual reminds me of this Maurice Tiberius VIII which placed the III above the V. I believe it is still an 8. At that...
Now a challenge: Show other double subtractions leaving something other than 4 or 9. IX is not hard to find but IIX???
Congratulations!!! We all know about subtractive Roman numerals for 4 and 9 but Latin class never mentioned that sometimes the Romans would use...
You did not look at the link to the 38 coin being sold on Numismall. Another clue: http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=195315...
No win; no prize. 'No XXXVIII' is not right unless accompanied by the answer to what was done in its place.
http://www.numismall.com/Tiberius-AE-As-Globe-and-Rudder-RIC-52-Rome-Mint-Scarce.html Don't look at the above link that gives the answer unless...
Rudi is right that there is no XXXVIII but there is a 38 as I strongly suspect Randy knows. How can there not be XXXVIII but still be a 38? This...
As Randy showed by his question, it is possible to pick up on a millimeter of two difference from a photo that has no scale. IMHO the AE2 coins...
24.5mm across the widest part - 5.11g
Again this year we drove to visit my mother-in-law in Indiana passing by a coin shop in Kentucky that last year produced one of my Nemausis croc...
Recently Randy posted a thread with his new PARL and the one he traded to someone I know (me) so I'll add here my new PARL which does not by any...
I also missed where my article and the one linked were substantially out of synch. Reverse engineering from evidence is hard.
I can't think of c/m's on Romans after the first century. There are a lot of stamped Claudius era and a few from the 68-69 war period. Who has a...
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