Byzantine - Justinian Rome may have fallen in the West but it continued in the East centered on the new capitol Constantinople built on the...
Gold Gold coins exist for many periods of antiquity but many are well beyond the price bracket of most collectors. An exception is found in...
Late Roman – Constantine the Great Nero is credited with starting the persecution of the new religious sect called the Christians. Our next...
Roman Empire - Nero When the wars ended, Caesar Augustus remained in sole power and became the first Roman Emperor. He and each succeeding...
Roman Imperatorial Denarius – Antony The end of the Republic brought in a period of civil wars between strongmen you may have studied in...
Roman Republican Denarius Roman power arose in central Italy and spread throughout the Mediterranean world. Early Roman coins were issued...
Hellenistic Period – Ptolemy I Time prevents us showing every stop in the history of Greek coinage. The great military leader Alexander the...
Greek Bronze - Akragas When the Greeks realized the impracticality of the tiny silver coins they had been using, small denominations were...
Classical Greek Corinthian Stater While Athens was important, a thousand other jurisdictions issued coins. Here we see Pegasus and Athena...
Athenian Obol Athens, the capital of the modern country of Greece always was an important center of Greek culture in antiquity. This small...
Three answers for one question: In the Eastern Mediterranean in what is today Western Turkey, Greek speaking city-states started trading...
Today I presented a short overview on ancient coins as one of the educational programs at the Virginia Numismatic Association Convention. Four...
Ground rule #1: ALL ancient coins have been cleaned. Uncleaned coins with an inch of dirt on them used to have two inches of dirt. Ground...
Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe there are two reasons that it is hard to get a coin with great edges like Larry's. One is that the things...
The Constantine I is from Heraclea mint RIC 16 p.544. I find it interesting that I have seen more coins of this issue with remaining silver so it...
http://www.catbikes.ch/coinstuff/coins-ric.htm These are covered on one of the Helvetica spreadsheets. I find these harder to use than regular...
I have written a review of a forthcoming book, Encyclopedia of Roman Coins II (ERIC II) by Rasiel Suarez which is currently in pre-order status...
I think the problem for some of us old guys is that we remember when the Sheldon scale introduced the case than a coin worth $1 in basal state was...
I became aware of the stirrup question as a result of my friendship with Victor Failmezger which eventually led to my doing photos for his book on...
Proper storage of 'special' coins is a problem. Certainly we don't want the rims of a nice coin beat up but it is disturbing that a major TPG is...
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