[IMG] Phocaea, Ionia, 6th century BC, a hair under 5mm, 0.1g, probably a quarter obol but I'm uncertain on this point.
RIC lists the coin as Scarce with the version where the globe is held closer to the body as Common. Ostia was only an operating mint for a short...
Ostia, the port city of Rome used M for Moneta OST for Ostia and T is the sign of the Tertius 3rd workshop. 312-313 AD RIC 90a
Possibly Indo Scythian but the images don't even make me certain of that let alone allow better ID.
The number of big collections either missing the Victory Antioch or having a coin I'm not certain is Eastern is large. I still believe that the...
There is a major difference between no investigation and no publication. Much of the new work on these things is being done privately by people...
My suggestion is that you not take as absolute the ID's of the coins found claiming to be Antioch. As you say, some are clearly Eastern but some...
Note that when Venus appeared on coins of Domna, she traded the staff for a palm and the helmet for an apple (and lost a few pounds?).
A lot has been speculated about the reason behind the 'horn' and there is no real agreement on what it was and why it was removed shortly after...
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