I don't have the experience with these to give meaningful answers but my amateur observation is that it is not hard to find Emesa examples of more...
To a purist, the obverse dies is always the anvil die (lower position). That means some coins were struck with a head on the tails side and...
While I certainly agree that reverse dies had a shorter life than obverse, I don't believe it was anything like 7-8 times as much. The rules...
Ancient coins were struck from dies individually cut by hand without the use of mechanical duplication as is done today. Large issues of coins...
Patience is an important ingredient (and one I lack). Some coins respond to soaking and changing the water (long before you see dirty water, it...
Randy's Mesembria bronze is the same style as the silver from that city but everyone needs to be especially careful buying the silver since there...
Failmezger's book on these gave Saeculum Romanum but that was as much of a guess as anything also. Part of the 'deal' with ancient coins is that...
Observation based on my Mercury dimes pulled from circulation in the 1950's: Reeding disappears completely about the same time the wing on the...
Did you notice that your coin has the R in SR cut backwards? Mistakes like this happen on individual dies (I credit it to being cut just before...
If that is the case, I wonder if the listing in RIC of a version with a shield is not just an error based on a similarly dirty coin that someone...
Randy's two coins of Constans refer to his visit to Britain in 343 AD.
Certainly it is a fake or perhaps one farther - a fantasy since I'm not recognizing what it was intended to copy. We need to remember that...
How does a 2002 non-circulating coin get that much wear without being a pocket piece which should pick up scratches and dings not showing in that...
Looking at it more closely, I see your campgate is a rare item. It has the mintmark PTRE used with the shield bust. RIC catalog only lists this...
The denarius of Hadrian has a nicer image of a Roman galley but the bronze as of the Republic is more interesting for this thread since it shows...
The reverse refers to Gallienus being honored for victories against the Germans for the fifth time. I do not know the specific battle that was...
Constantine (ConstantiNus) II and Constantius II both as Caesars and in that order. I'm a poor cleaner so someone else can advise on that....
Constantinopolis were issued from several (not all) mints over 5-6 years near the end of the life of Constantine I and shortly afterward (at a few...
Byzantine gold is not something to be expertised from a photo. I failed to find a listing for the dealers attending the ISNA show in a couple...
Agree. To go further, even the terms like quarter and half are open to discussion. I side with the camp that ranks them as 1/5 and 2/5 of the...
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