Very informative and interesting write-up! Was the Salvs Provinciarvm type used by any of the other Gallic emperors? I've always wondered if the...
Speaking of Becker ... I wonder if anyone knows anything about this Becker type (currently listed on eBay). [ATTACH] I'm curious if the type...
I don't subscribe to either. At the free level ACSearch is obviously better since it goes back much further. If you want prices of anything...
Here's a coin that combines OP's Sol theme with both Licinius and Maximinus II ... This is RIC VI Heraclea 78, issued by Maximinus II in 313 AD...
It's quite presentable, but you did say Lugdunum! I think RIC has the order of a couple of these Rome issues reversed. It seems it should be R*P,...
Not my wheelhouse, and crappy photo to boot, but here's my only sestertius. It's the earliest use of the radiate nimbus I could afford at the...
I'd be interested to see it all the same!
But in at least one case, the "Victory of Calvatone", appendages (wings) that may never have existed were supplied....
Overall for fakes I'd say more like 1%, or less, but of course it depends on the seller. From some professional sellers (who also have presence on...
I guess insulting by omission of honorifics might have been a bit too subtle, and anyways a bit futile given that with all these abbreviations the...
That's a great shot! I'm a big fan of multi-coin photos. Tough to get so many varied patinas all decently exposed at the same time.
What's great about coins of this imperial time period is that there is at least a good amount of "current events" reflected on the coinage. Some...
For sure. I've never actually lost anything at the hands of the USPS, but it's getting more and more dodgy. I have far more faith in FedEx,...
I'd be fine with owning a coin with that type of repair, although if I'd bought it holed I'd have left it that way. I think there's a big...
It seems being a collector is part of the human condition, at least for some humans. Maybe a mild type of disfunction akin to OCD - being irrated...
Some auction houses appear to know what they are selling, but you can't be a specialist in everything and it seems that coins that look common...
Or, if you had a couple million to spare, you could own an unopened copy of the "Super Mario Bros" video game. That collectibles market is going...
Well... There's a lot going on between 306-310. We've got Constantine first coming to power in 306 with Galerius agreeing to a title of caesar,...
Waiting to see where the winds were blowing is probably about right. Some of Maxentius' earliest coinage from both Carthage and Rome had...
No siree! In-between 324 and 330 AD there were five Antioch issues, but evidentially the come-up-with-new-issue-marks dude (pretty sure this was...
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