Your OP Diocletian is beautiful and the photography is brilliant. If you own only one ancient coin, one as lovely as this is the one to have....
A very interesting write up on a fascinating period in Byzantine history. Thanks! I collect novels on Byzantium because there are so few of them....
Dougsmit, What a perfectly marvelous Gordian III repurposed in the middle Byzantine period! It is indeed a prize – thank you for sharing its...
It's a Heraclius overstrike on a Focas, in turn probably overstruck on a Maurice Tiberius.
I have a Leontius half follis (S. 1335; H. 33) overstruck on a radiate fraction of Maximianus. Of the host coin details remain of the obverse...
Not at all. I appreciated your thought response.
Thank you for your very helpful suggestions. She has arrived back to her mother and me in the US sans coins. I may perhaps later travel to her...
Thank you, all, for your wise suggestions. She has decided against bringing anything this time. Perhaps I will travel there myself some day in...
Dear Online Friends, My step-daughter, who lives in the U. K., wants to bring to me several boxes of her deceased father's ancient coins so...
It's nice seeing posts on Byzantine coins. Too many of my collector friends think my taste in things Byzantine is a little curious. Let them so...
I read Gore Vidal's novel Julian when it came out in 1964. At the time I loved it, and when I read the 4th c. historian Ammianus Marcellinus...
Nice coin! Congratulations! I love late Roman and Byzantine silver. Attached is one of my favorites. A common coin, but nice to look at. [ATTACH]
Thank you!
You've got a very nice coin - congratulations! The mint is Arles, not Constantinople. The city was renamed Constantina in 328 in honor of...
I really like your Volusian with the Juno Martialis reverse. An unusual type, only issued under Volusian and his father Treb. Gallus. I have one...
This is my only Roman "plate" coin I own. In the Byzantine series, I do have some of the plate coins from Sear's book and Hahn's Moneta Imperii...
I'll be happy to look over the thread you recommend. Off for bed now, but tomorrow!
Around 35 years ago I shifted my numismatic interests from general Greek and Roman coins to late Roman and more specifically, Byzantine coins. But...
If Rome hadn't fallen - always an intriguing thought. Below is a book discussing some of the possibilities from the university library where I...
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