Clearly a type of the joint reign of Caracalla and Geta in 211, since the titles PIA FELIX were apparently only added to Domna's coins when...
An interesting observation, and an attractive coin! Compare Prieur's comment on his no. 852, also an Edessan tetradrachm of Macrinus: "The...
Looks like a Claudius dupondius, rev. CERES AVGVSTA.
Your Aurelian seems to be Göbl 317a, 16 specimens in his photofile, with note that GERM is always misspelled GERN, as on your new coin. So...
It seems unwise, however, to follow the ideas of Ameling, Levick, and Beckmann, given that all three of them were unaware of my proposal, since I...
@ancientone, Obv. legend looks like IMP VII not V, and that would suggest as rev. legend not SAECVLI FELICITAS, but DIVI M PII F P M TR P III COS...
Mat, But the dated type I am referring to had type Emperor sacrificing to his god, not Sol advancing or (another earlier type) Providentia...
That the "horn" was connected with Elagabalus' religion is clear from the chronology of its appearance on the coins. In mid-221 Elagabalus' final...
Unfortunately I'm afraid you are correct: your coin cannot be authentic, combining as it does the obv. legend of 222-228, IMP C M AVR SEV ALEXAND...
But surely you agree that the Aelius die is a copy of an authentic Roman die, as I stated above?
Varbanov 5818: "river-god Hebros at her feet to r., visible to waist". No mention that the city goddess steps on him. Regling, AMNG 1910, p. 629:...
The obverse seems to duplicate an authentic Roman medallion die of Aelius, illustrated in the new RIC for Hadrian, pl. 217, 2931-2. I don't know...
That Google translation is worthless, giving no help whatever in understanding the Latin text! The translation of Magnia's name was not a good...
David, According to RIC 1219 and their photo on pl. 66, that coin too is in fact radiate not laureate, but the radiate portrait faces left, not...
@Marsyas Mike If your rev. legend definitely starts with P M, then the tribunician number will be VIIII rather than VIII, because P M was only...
Coins without overstriking on the obverse, but with reverses overstruck with one contemporaneous die over another, of the same or different types,...
Judging from the photos, the coin looks definitely authentic to me, and not smoothed. Almost all ancient bronze coins have been cleaned, but...
@ambr0zie Maybe your first denarius above is also Caracalla not Geta, with obv. legend M AVR ANTON - CAES PONTIF. That would make it a coin of...
Though the description doesn't say so, maybe they thought the coin had a much higher silver content than usual so was worth a premium. Offering it...
@Roman Collector Thanks for your response. It's a difficult problem. A minor objection: Marcus can hardly have reassumed the tribunician power...
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