Upon his death in 14 CE, Augustus was deified. Coins under his successor Tiberius celebrated this and coins over 200 years later did too. Here is...
In 1995 a woman from New Jersey saw some ancient coins of mine on consignment at a local coin dealer in Montana and asked him if he bought ancient...
Trajan issued many coins that referenced particular conquests. I tell a short version of the story of this Parthian conquest here:...
Mine has a good pedigree. Commodus. Sestertius. TRP VI IMP IIII COS III PP in ex: LIB AVG IIII Struck Jan 1-Dec. 9, 181. [ATTACH] Ex. British...
Whoever created that graph deserves credit. Also, we might like to read the whole article. Please give us the citation.
Consider looking in your local public or university library. It is unlikely they have much up-to-date, but they will be free to borrow and might...
That is a very nice one!
I am a fan of big tetrarchal folles. Severus II (305-306-307) became Caesar in 305 in the second tetrarchy and participated in the GENIO POPVLI...
Do you mean same type of coin? I think they are two different coins and yours is very nice with lots of detail. The surface may well have been...
If I didn't already have the Rynearson book, I would order it. There is an eBay seller with it at $8 plus $3.27 shipping in the US, and he has the...
I presume that "Coin Chat" allows responses that refer to other types of coins, including ancient coins (think Julius Caesar or classical Athens)....
That is a very good question. Throughout the Byzantine period there are very many overstrikes, usually on the same denomination of a previous...
Some Byzantine overstrikes are easy to attribute. [ATTACH] This is another Heraclius and son/M, Sear 805. The symbol to the right of the M is for...
The OP coin is an overstrike of Heraclius (610-641) and son, as @kevin McGonigal noted. There is a way to try to determine the undertype if you...
I just revised my page of coin of the tetrarchy with two excellent Licinius pieces and an excellent Maximinus II....
Dear @TIF, please PM me a gif of the secret handshake. Here are my credentials as a certified member of the Parliament club: [ATTACH] I bought...
On my page I wrote this about the anepigraphic type I illustrated above: "There are many more examples of each type than van Heesch found in...
I have a web page on these types: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/MaximinusII/ [ATTACH] This is one of the rarer types.
I think the Kingdom of the Bosporus has a claim to bad portraits. Here's one from Thothorses (285-308)/ The coin is dated explicitly below the...
I just added a new mintmark for Antioch under Justinian (527-565) to my page which tells the story of the mint and why its mintmarks changed from...
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