Alfred Duggan is an excellent author with numerous historical novels set in the Greek, Roman, and medieval periods. Knight with Armour (1946)...
Collecting Roman coinage lends itself to creating your own mini-theme. You have chosen are really interesting theme and have made a good start...
Trajan (98-117) issued many types that make reference to historical events, including his bloodless annexation of Arabia in 106. I have a web site...
Plus, there is a cross above the head, a scarcer variety. I have a friend who collected cross-above-head Byzantine coins and I wrote a website on...
[ATTACH] Severus II as Caesar, 1 May 305 - 25 July 306 28 mm. RIC VI Carthage 40a (same type as the coin in the original post) Bought in 1999...
Thank you very much. I appreciate your expertise.
@Limes , that's a very nice writeup. Here is another type of D. Junius Brutus Albinus. This one is Crawford 450/3a whereas the original-post...
I'd be interested to hear from you about the dates you would assign the the VENVS GENETRIX types I showed.
Near the end of the reign of Caracalla in 217 the VENVS GENETRIX design was struck as both denarii and antoniniani for Julia Domna. [ATTACH]...
Sometimes rarity is what adds interest to a coin. However, rarity is not necessary for a coin to be interesting. The CONSTANTINOPOLIS type is very...
It is a tourist cast fake of a Greek type. Even the tourist shops in Pompeii are more likely to sell reproductions of Roman types. It is unlikely...
I wouldn't usually choose "black" but I have one: [ATTACH] Faustina II. 18-17 mm. 3.23 grams. Struck under Antoninus Pius 148-152 at Rome....
Go to voins https://www.vcoins.com/en/coins/ancient-2.aspx and search on CONS* EXERCITVS You will get hit on 800 similar coins. The obverse...
I think the word "church" should be replaced by "temple." He was not raiding accumulated Christian treasures, rather accumulated pagan treasures....
Aurelian was Roman emperor from 270-275. He inherited a coinage system with coins of very low quality silver we call "pre-reform" coins and...
The $6 price of an Alexander Janneus in "G-VG" is about half the cost of an elephant CAESAR. I have two widow's mites (in better than G-VG) I'll...
We started out with a Julian II bull. We seen some other bulls and some other Julian II pieces, but not this one. [ATTACH] 18 mm. Julian II....
[ATTACH] 15-14 mm. 3.25 grams. Anonymous litra. 234-231 BC. Laureate head of Apollo right bridled horse prancing left. Crawford 26/3, Sear I...
What do you think it will sell for, including fees? If it went for the estimate, with 20% fees, the cost would be $768,000. The way prices have...
[ATTACH] Roman Republican litra. 273-270 BC. 18-17 mm. 5.30 grams. Helmeted head of Minerva left Bridled horse's head right ROMANO up left side...
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