I love the elephantine denarii, and yours is exemplary. As usual the writeup draws me in. I was late with Vespasian, but so I have to be on time...
This thread got by me, so I am very late to the party. Some really nice looking coins above, and a wealth of material from a popular emperor....
I've been taking an interest in her silver of late. Those are both nice denarii, the first early, the second not so early.
Your writeup managed to include an element of drama, which made it a good read. Excellent coins, as always. One of my examples: (Which was...
Perfect!! Thank you Mat, now the light has come on. Hadn't noticed that the rest of the lettering is in Greek, except for the Senatorial "SC."...
The coins of Constantine, Licinius, and Daza from 310-313 are quite distinctive in overall style and format. During the "Balkan Explosion" of the...
During the year of the Saeculares under Philip I officina numbers were applied on select games issues at Rome as Roman numerals I-VI. The blended...
OP said his Syrian Tet was minted at Rome. How often did the mint at Rome use Greek numerals to designate an officina? Was that something...
Since this is reportedly his only ancient this seems to be a case where a picture motivated a sale. I see Rexford is not responding to comments....
Had to be away for a class reunion (50th) for the last couple of days, so I missed the introduction of this thread. Some familiar looking coins...
I think she meant to say, could you tell us the diameter in millimeters, and the weight in grams?
Here is a parallel example for Julia Domna, purportedly from Emessa: [ATTACH]
I'm really enjoying the writeups you have created, Ides. You have a good balance of historical detail and the "personal touch." That the coins...
Boy do I feel stupid! I told you the Laetitia reverse was used at Rome, but the only example I have is from Laodicea. I'm showing it to see if...
It's certainly not an As. It has the size and character of a bronze core for what would become a plated denarius, so it is either fouree or limes...
I think we agree on the motivation of Magnentius. However, I also think the mint officials at Trier were more radically Catholic than you are...
This is of interest to me since your posts on recognizing style differences on another list. I'm just a fledgling at it, but any chance for some...
Your comments about the Arian position are right on point, but I don't think your assessment of what was going on at Trier is necessarily correct....
Great writeup! I enjoyed the insightful observations about his artistic temperament, and the vignettes about the responses of his closest...
I've been adding to my groups of Domna silver lately, but since I don't have them photographed yet was going to bow out of showing anything. Then...
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