While I have known several really well educated academics that were a hundred times smarter than I am the fact remains that the subject of ancient...
Karshapana come in three varieties: Rare and pricey, common and identifiable and messy so it takes an expert to make them out. I bought a couple...
The first one was marked $40 so being half price made it $20. That is small show, low demand for ancients pricing. The same dealer had a good size...
Can you show a post reform Carausius? I'm not familiar with them.
FH1 and FH2 are all early and tend to be Western. The late ones (small size) are FH3 and FH4 but these two designs come in early models, too....
Every so often a coin follows me home just because I thought it was pretty. I don't especially collect Diocletian and I had others of similar...
The Constantine I Sol looks like RIC 40 page 300 Vol. VII Rome mint. The exergual choices are RP, RS, RT and RQ. If you use imagination you may...
The FH 1-4 types are, at best, an rough guide. The number of tiny differences make it hard to classify all with certainty especially between 1...
I'll see your 99% and raise it to 99.9% fake. I've never seen real ones with a dot border quite like those. The pictures Randy posted are...
That does help. Thank you very much.
Now I feel bad. I remember seeing Bruck when I was at a friend's house but the book I saw was on much more than wolf and twins types so I thought...
This weekend I went to a show and bought 20 cleaned and common late Romans from two different dealers for prices ranging from $5 to $7 per coin....
This is 4.8g. What is the proper weight? It is quite possible it is the same coin. I have no idea what these should be (remember 99% of my...
At first glance this appears to be a cast fake of the New Hampshire Colonial by William Moulton. The casting seam is obvious around the edges....
A portrait with legends around on a dime size coin (not particularly thicker) is probably 4th century AD Roman but, as has been said, a photo...
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Other places If we have not yet covered coins you might find interesting, fear not there are many more. How many of you know of Aksum (left...
Medieval and early modern Europe Coinage continued in Europe through the Dark Ages and into the Medieval and early Modern eras until the...
Enemies “History is written by the victors” or so goes the old saying. Coins exist from cultures that bordered, aligned with and fought the...
Roman Colonial – Gordian III Now we must back up a few centuries. While Roman Imperial coins were good across most of the Empire, local...
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