I got this one last month: [ATTACH] Maximinus. Sestertius. 31-29 mm. 22.90 grams. MAXIMINVS PIVS AVG GERM. Final portrait style. PM TRP IIII...
Let's be clear that this thread has discussed two distinct hoards. The OP hoard is Celtic, and the hoard discussed by @Jim Dale and @talerman is...
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Good question. I don't know what evidence we might have that tells whether a coin mentioning an event might be issued significantly before the...
Dating the events of the reigns of Valerian and Gallienus is difficult. Ancient sources are not clear. We have all heard about Valerian being...
At Academia.edu you can download Anthony Kropff's "A new English Translation of the Price Edit of Diocletianus." It has one pound of silver at...
That's right. It is Gallienus.
The folles had a small, but significant amount of silver in the alloy and on the surface. Because silver was worth, by weight, 100 times as much...
Yes. That is a "Second Tetrarchy" type and, sometime, I will write a web page or more on coins of the Second Tetrarchy.
I just added two more pages to my site "Introduction to Roman coins of the First Tetrarchy": http://augustuscoins.com/ed/tetrarchy/ which I...
This hoard was written about in 2016. It was found in Sevilla, Spain and I have had something about it on my site for beginners since then....
How big are they? What are their diameters?
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You showed one. I'd like to see more of them; I bet other members would too.
Other sites from the OP that are not working Antiqua Black Mountain Coins Chi Rho coins has only a broken link to eBay There may be more that...
I am announcing a new educational site, "Introduction to Roman Coins of the First Tetrarchy: Diocletian, Maximian, Constantius, and Galerius."...
I wrote this about coins as an investment. It begins with a short discussion of investing in coins in general and ends with more attention to...
I have this Samarian "owl": [ATTACH] It is tiny at 9-8 mm and 0.78 grams. His has a helmeted head of Athena right and an owl with outspread...
That is a pretty nice Caligula. 2000-year old copper often has some surface corrosion and this one may have had some "smoothed," but it came out...
Like everyone else, I'd prefer to avoid tooled and smoothed coins. Significant tooling is very bad, but for some types, like sestertii, smoothing...
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