I just got this unofficial Magnentius coin. The style is not too bad and the spelling is close. The size is is also about the same as official...
Here is some poorly engraved armor (note right shoulder) from Thessalonica, worn by Licinius Jr.-- [ATTACH] it should have looked more like...
This campgate has fifteen rows...I can't recall seeing an example with more, though I only casually note the rows...paying too much attention to...
Actually wearing boots (barely visible), helmet and some sort of belt/ girdle; which he needs as he seems a little pudgy around the midsection for...
Here is a very common type...but not as common with a horseman on the shield. This type is mentioned in the footnotes of RIC. [ATTACH] Crispus...
Here's an unofficial coin that was slabbed. It's in pretty good style and managed to slip through as official. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
[ATTACH] Magnus Maximus Siliqua, struck AD 383-388 at Trier mint. Obv: D N MAG MAXIMVS P F AVG, diademed, draped and cuirassed bust right. Rev:...
The reverse of this coin was supposed to be a Chi-Rho between two stars; but the engraver messed up a bit and the left star is more of a Chi-Rho....
The mint in Carthage opened to fund the Roman campaign against the Quinquegentiani (People of the Five Tribes) a group of Berbers that rebelled...
I am looking for a Diocletian GENIO from Alexandria to finish my set of coins issued by Domitius Domitianus...
RIC doesn’t list any siliqua with this mintmark for Theodosius I, but it is listed for other rulers—Valens, Gratian and Valentinian II. It was...
Here is a Constantius II obverse paired with a Constantinopolis reverse. Though listed as a mule (which means official mint mistake) I think that...
Here are three recent Constantinopolis coins pickups from the Nether Compton hoard. from CNG-- “This massive hoard of 22,670 Roman coins was...
This coin is not listed in RIC or Bastien's Le Monnayage de L'Atelier de Lyon...I know of at least one other example though. It should come after...
I think that I have posted topics about most of these. My collecting interests are mainly 4th century, with a particular focus in Constantinian...
Here's an unofficial Constantine I Siscian VLPP struck over a Licinius I IOVI CONSERVATORI (RIC VII Siscia 11) from Siscia, struck A.D. 313- 315....
This coin checked a lot of boxes for me—helmet with Sol in quadriga and griffin on crest, shield with two horsemen and four enemies and a gorgon...
I was sorting through some coins and noticed that I had a few rarer Constantine coins from the London mint. Most have some tie to the war with...
A cpuple of days ago, I was thinking about what seems like some animosity towards the coin (perhaps taken out on the Chi-Rho) and thought of the...
This is a nice example of a Constans FEL TEMP (RIC VIII Siscia 211) but something is not right. [ATTACH]
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