Is this a rare coin? Putting aside NGC, how extensive is the edge filling? It is possible that it might have had a mount removed, especially if...
Here's another link to a short Coin Week article about the coinage of Heraclius. Some of you CT members probably know about it:...
Oops! Forgot to read the legend. I thought the portrait looked vaguely familiar. Thanks
And usually quite powdery, a sure sign of active corrosion.
Does anyone have a coin from the time when Athens revolted against Rome, in 88 BC, or a coin of Boudica? Also, I know that Spartacus did not...
For CT members interested in another perspective on this turbulent time, as recommended by nerosmyfavorite68, here is a link to the podcast...
Thank you, Al. Those are excellent solidi of Heraclius! Is the portrait on the first coin that of Heraclius the Elder? I think it is.
What an incredible opportunity that was! My guess is that the owner had a friend or family member who happened to have some coins that he or she...
That's a very attractive coin with very nice patina and a beautiful, bold strike for this type!
It's possible. Phocas is wearing a consular robe on the obverse of the Antioch follis very much in the same style of Maurice Tiberius. Here's...
It certainly does! Thanks for posting.
I do have quite a few bronze Byzantine coins, acquired recently and in years past, many of them pleading to be researched and properly labeled....
First Jewish Revolt, 1/8 shekel, year 4, 69/70 AD 5.2 grams [ATTACH] First Jewish Revolt, shekel, year 2, 67–68 AD 13.7 grams [ATTACH]...
Interesting coin! Was it issued during an uprising against Rome? Its fabric, although crude, seems to be imitating a denarius of that time. As...
Very nice! I like the earthen deposits set against the dark brown patina.
It cannot be said, with credulity, that Phocas was a benign emperor. His murder of Maurice Tiberius in 602 AD was the best way to start his rule....
I suppose. It's not the kind of photo you'd post on a dating website. He was my uncle Louie. The story is that he ended up murdered in Chicago,...
Found out that I am related to this guy, in the federal pen, back in who-knows-when, courtesy of Ancestry.com. Enough said. [ATTACH]
That's a very nice follis! I located the Antioch follis, year 8, the last year of Phocas's reign. As far as I know this is the only type that...
As a side note, during the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920, the revolutionary force under Emilio Zapata struck one and two pesos coins in the state...
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