We can learn a lot about types and meaning because we study them with our time instead of spending it learning how to tell MS64 from MS63. :happy:
[ATTACH] Maximian Lugdunum = Lyons 28 mm. 10.16 grams. IMP MAXIMIANVS AVG altar left, A right PLG in exergue RIC Lyon 113b "c.301-303"
I have begun work on it and 46 pages deep into old CT posts I found this earlier thread on the Farnese Hercules type:...
I like the types because they are unique to Julia Domna. As you may know, I have a web site which discusses maybe 100 such types in quiz format (I...
@Curtisimo , that is an excellent writeup that would make a web page I would be proud off. In fact, I think I am going to make a web page of...
That's just what I was writing about. You show an excellent mini-theme. The Maxentius as Caesar is a real rarity. Congratulations! Here are...
There are some Lycian designs with four arms to make a tetraskeles: [ATTACH] Lycian Dynast Teththiweibi [What a name to infer from so little on...
I had no idea the hoard of coins of the "Lycian dynasts" might number more than 4000, but I did see many sold over time, most with weak obverses...
Folles of the tetrarchy are large, common, and often in pleasing grade. Some collectors and scholars feel the portraits of the four tetrarchs of...
That is a real beauty, with the walls and towers very clear. Often they are crudely indicated, as on my Antoninus Pius from Gaza. [ATTACH] 28-26...
Here is a Treb Gallus from Antioch--a tetradrachm: [ATTACH] 26 mm. 12.41 grams. AVTOK K Γ OVIB TPЄB ΓAΛΛOC CЄB Autokrater [Imperator] Kaiser...
That auction house knows little about ancient coins. It is a well-known Slavey copy.
The seller honestly stated that there was a flan crack that had been filled in.
Oops! I'm sorry. Here is the right link: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/interesting/SECVRITAS.html I fixed it in the original post, too.
The lady Securitas appears on coins of several early emperors and can be distinguished from all the other Roman imperial figures by having a...
The ones Doug was taking about are from the facing-bust era which is later, as @catadc noted. I think yours is from a die intended for 20-nummia...
As always, "It depends." Some types almost never have flan cracks (e.g. denarii of Maxminus Thrax) and then they would be a big negative --...
Domitian AE. [ATTACH] Domitian. Thrace. Perinthos. 35-33 mm. Heracles standing left. RPC II 362. Next: Another Roman provincial 33 mm or larger.
Some in this thread are worth only $5-$10 if bought live from a person who has many. Most are $20-$30. One was NGC with a (high) price given. The...
It took me a while to decipher this coin. The flan is small, with some legend off the flan. The legend begins c. 11:00 and goes clockwise (with...
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