The OP "floating display" worked very well and was attractive, but a bit large for coins at 3 3/4" square. I looked around and found this which is...
Here is a Macedonian shield on a tetrobol from the time of Philip V (c. 187-179 BC) or Perseus (179-168 BC). [ATTACH] 15 mm. 2.00 grams. The lower...
I have a NOBILITAS type on my pages of reverse types unique to a particular emperor: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/unique/unique3.html#NOBILITAS...
It is very helpful when people point out dead links. They are easy to fix and I just fixed this one. A long time ago when @Suarez created his list...
Lot 837 was in the first part. It was a tridrachm of Trajan with three standards on the reverse.
I don't think it is a good image of any emperor. Only Nerva is depicted on coins with a nose like that and rest of the portrait is unlike Nerva....
@DominicP , maybe still another assertion that it is a fake will remove any doubts you have. It is a definitely a poor fake.
Byzantine history is, well, Byzantine. The complicated reign of Constantine VII illustrates it. There are more twists and turns than I can recount...
Long ago, in 2001, I wrote a web page on rarity of ancient coins, largely with US coin collectors in mind....
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