Okay. Everyone who replied got that one right. It was Trajan (98-117). Now for the sixth bust. The rules remain the same. Here is the sixth bust...
You can look at what they cost retail (which is not quite the same as what they are "worth") at many sites such as:...
Surely it is modern, not ancient.
Here is another two-Pannoniae of Trajan Decius, much like the OP coin but with the two facing each other and shaking hands. [ATTACH] 22 mm....
Here is my Sear 2015 of Alexius III: [ATTACH] 20-19 mm. 4.01 grams. 6:00 die axis. St. George facing Θ Γ I ΓЄ OC <Pω> Alexius...
The fourth bust was identified as this young man: [ATTACH] The young Marcus Aurelius as Caesar. This coin has legend IVVENTAS (referring to the...
The third bust was identified as Julia Domna. It is much like the bust on this coin: [ATTACH] Now for the fourth bust. The rules remain the...
This is going pretty quickly. I expect some of you are not following CT both mornings and evenings, but I think a few responses is enough, so I am...
Well, I agree the bust is not very distinctive, but they thought it was Gordian III. Remember, most ancient busts lack the original nose because...
The story of the OP type is told here: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Byz/ConVII.html Read it and you will see why coins of Romanus I are sometimes...
When in Rome collectors will want to see the Coliseum and the Forum. Near, but not in, the Forum is the Capitoline museum with its hall of...
It sure is. Two people wanted the best and only one of them got it. Two figures on the reverse is common; three with Victory in the middle is...
My local US-coin dealer rarely gets any ancients, even though he evaluates many estate collections. My area of the world is more interested in...
Sometimes it is useful to distinguish between coin and type when calling coins "the same."
Leo VI was the elder son of Byzantine emperor Basil I and assumed the throne in 886 when Basil died. Alexander was the younger son. [ATTACH]...
An English dealer I knew sold this coin to me on eBay in 2010. [ATTACH] Maximian, struck c. 300-303. 25 mm. 9.86 grams. RIC VI Ticinum 45b...
Alan Walker of Nomos ( https://nomosag.com/ ) wrote a followup on cultural property to the comments I quoted in the original post. Here it is,...
As @Curtisimo noted, Aelius was governor of Pannonia. This type of sestertius explicitly connects Aelius to Pannonia. [ATTACH] 30 mm. L AELIVS...
The OP coin is a vota type. Here is a site with more than you want to know about vota coins: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/VOTA/ Vows for year 15,...
"Lunacy" is right. We recently had this thread: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/which-coin-is-a-better-investment.347257/ where a 1945-D nickel...
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