For Tiberius, Lugdunum minted all the denarii. There are other mints for Augustus, especially early on, like Emerita in Lusitania, and several...
According to Sutherland, the ancient author Strabo and inscriptions attest that Lugdunum was the site of Augustus's chief mint for gold and...
Roman coins from the first century might be from Lugdunum, but they don't say so explicitly. It took scholars a lot of work to try to determine...
The ANS has serious "summer seminars" to help training the next generation of numismatists. I could not find the 2019 (or 2020) list of...
Very nice coins! Those are distinctly different in my book!
If you collect Lincoln cents no one would think a 1914-D and 1931 plain were duplicates, similar though they are. Here is an ancient-coin...
@DonnaML , that's a beautiful collection and looking at all 30 in the tray, each is interesting and worthy of its own story. You could pick any...
The war in the east resulted in victories over Armenians and Parthians. [ATTACH] Lucius Verus denarius. 19 mm. 3.39 grams. L VERVS AVG ARM...
You are welcome. It is awesome. Grab a picture book on Roman history out of the library (look for an ancient-coin book while you are there) or...
Even a small quadrans can have nice lettering: [ATTACH] 18 mm. 2.97 grams. The smallest Roman imperial denomination of the time. Struck under...
I hope it is the second edition, which is far superior to the first. It has much greater coverage of very late Byzantine coins. You will find it...
As Victor noted, it is a "radiate fraction" a.k.a. "post reform radiate" (not a laureate "follis"). Here is a web site on the denomination:...
On page 51 Prier has this obverse (with radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust left and this legend) as 290 (4 examples, but the eagle has tail left)...
Here is a Diadumenian tetradrachm from Antioch. He looks like a boy. [ATTACH] Son of Macrinus, 217-218, he was 9 or 10 during the reign. 26-24...
(American) football is a great sport to watch. You get to look at coin catalogs most of the time because of all the interruptions in play. 60...
I once walked with Bluma Trell to the site of a numismatic meeting. She was coauthor with Martin Price of "Coins and Their Cities: Architecture on...
Experiments have shown that a copper-silver alloy with c. 15% silver and maybe even as low as 10% silver, or more will, when struck, have the...
As far as I know, there are not any books. Over a decade ago I wrote this page about references on imitations of all kinds (not just barbarous...
@Jochen1 , that is a great writeup. Thanks. Here is the sky god Anu as the left figure on the reverse: [ATTACH] Cilicia. Tarsos. Satrap...
That is an excellent example. I agree it is an imitation, remarkably well done. I think there is a significant distinction between barbarous...
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