The scientific method! Excellent idea! Take before and after photographs. You can't rely on memory to tell you what they looked like before...
Don't.
Ah! The 64-dollar question. I suggest an alloy: 20 parts copper and one part silver. In the late 1980's I began a draft of an article on the...
[ATTACH] Here is a rare Constantine commemorative: 15 mm. 1.46 grams. DV CONSTAN-...PT AVGG veiled had right IVSTIA VEN MEMOR, Aequitas...
Suppose "XXI" meant "1 of these is 20 of some smaller unit." Then "XI" would mean "1 of these is 10 of some smaller unit" (and those XI coins...
He has a diadem (not a crown). The obverse legend ends "AVG". The reverse ends "AVGG" for two Augusti, Constantine and Licinius. Constantine II...
It is a beauty. Coins of Alexander the Great check all the boxes: history, old, big, silver, beautiful. You gotta love them!
Yes. [ATTACH] Above is an "XXI" equivalent with "KA". Tacitus (275-276) CLEMENTIA TEMP, Mars standing left holding olive branch in right, spear...
This has been proven false. Doug's explanation is correct. You can read about XI and XXI in an academic article here:...
Here is a Treb Gallus like the first coin in this thread: [ATTACH] IMP C C VIB TREB GALLVS P F AVG MARTEM PROPVGNATOREM 21-20 mm. 3.82 grams. RIC...
[ATTACH] Constantius, 293-305-306 Lyons = Lugdunum 28 mm. 9.25 grams, CONSTANTIVS NOB C, bust left, laureate and cuirassed altar left, B in...
Have you seen anything like this? Do you know of reference? I have had it for years and now think it is time to ask. [ATTACH] 12-11 mm. 0.78...
I offer some quality Theodosius AE4s. Your choice $15 + $2 shipping in the US. The bottom left coin is SOLD. Any coin left is $14, the next will...
Very nice! Overstrikes are rarely the nicest examples of the overtype, but they sure are interesting in a scholarly way. In Byzantine AE coins,...
In August 2018 I started a thread https://www.cointalk.com/threads/byzantine-anonymous-folles.322682/ announcing my web site on Byzantine...
India has over a billion people. If many more of them get rich, they might want the Kushan gold. They will recognize the US nickel for what it...
Here is my site on FIL AVG and FIL AVGG coins. http://augustuscoins.com/ed/FILAVGG/#C17 The link skips down to images of coins of Maximinus II,...
I have a list of dealers here, more or less in order of usefulness. http://augustuscoins.com/ed/dealers.html Some near the end are so minor they...
Licinius II is not the favorite ruler of anyone I know. That is not all bad. His coins are therefore less expensive than they might be. One could...
Not in RIC: [ATTACH] Maximian, second reign, or Galerius, struck autumn 307-end 308 GENIO POP ROM S A in fields PTR in exergue RIC VI page 217...
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