Happy birthday I'm also 18...with 37 years experience
have to start grading the slabs also :)
this one has a couple of holes [ATTACH] Magnentius A.D. 350-3 25x27mm 8.7g D N MAGNENTIVS P F AVG; bare-headed, draped & cuirassed bust...
I would be surprised to see this bust type for Diocletian, as I would assume it was only for Maximianus, since he was affiliated with Hercules.
This coin is one of my rarest this year -- Maximianus with heroic nude bust right, and drapery over shoulders... it is also my cheapest. [ATTACH]...
It's not a severed head; but a bust, like a statue. Two examples below that demonstrate this better, with the second example (bust of Sol) showing...
If you haven't seen it, DOC is available online. Here is volume V--...
OCRE has two examples from different workshops http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.6.anch.132a
I think this one is neat because in the reverse legend, it looks like the engraver made an error and then re-engraved it-- the first S of CAESARIS...
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No need to read anything into it...the similarity of the bust types might just be like all the tetrarchic coins; in which all the busts look a...
he's just one of many fake sellers on eBay. I added him to my fake seller list last month...
One of my favorites from Diocletian because somebody at the mint really messed up. Though RIC attributed this issue to Trier, it is actually from...
Mars was commonly held to be the father of Romans because he was the father of Romulus and Remus.
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Constantius I and John Belushi...mainly because of how Constantius has his eyebrow arched. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Yes, though only listed in RIC for Maximianus, several examples are known for Constantine as Caesar.
[ATTACH] Constantine I A.D. 307- 310 25x26mm 6.8g IMP CONSTANTINVS P F AVG; Laureate and cuirassed bust right. MARTI PATRI PROPVG; Mars,...
if you are talking about the Edict of Prices, you have to post some of his "sacred money" [ATTACH] Diocletian A.D. 303- 305 26x28mm 8.3g IMP...
That one is from Ticinum
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