I love coins of the tetrarchy (founded by Diocletian). Books often say the art of the period emphasized unity and their portraits are almost...
Silver coins of the Roman Republic from the first century BC were imitated in good silver in Dacia (north of the Danube, roughly in the region of...
I offer coins of the Roman tetrarchy: Many are here at Augustus Coins: http://augustuscoins.com/Tetrarchy.html and I feature two below [ATTACH]...
This has been one of my favorite coins since 1984: [ATTACH] 31 mm. Husam al din Yuluq Arslan, struck 596 AH = 1199/1200 AD, vasal of two...
Here is one like @Cucumbor 's second coin: [ATTACH] 21 mm. 8.63 grams. Pontus, Amisos, time of Mithradates Eupator, 120-63 BC. Head of young...
@Curtisimo , running the tournament was a great deal of work. I want you to know that it is appreciated. I'm sure you had many many communications...
I have one. The type is: [ATTACH] Panticapaeum, 20 mm. 294-284 BC according to Anokhin and Frolova says "beginning of the third century B.C."...
I wrote a page on British Claudian imitations: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/imit/imitclaudius.html After illustrating many Claudian imitations,...
Panticapaeum (variously spelled) was a city on the northern Black Sea coast at the east end of Crimea (formerly Ukraine, recently annexed by...
I suspect you can blame that on the availability of coins on the internet, plus the decline of US-coin collecting. When I was young, long ago,...
The OP Hadrian looks authentic to me.
[ATTACH] Panticapaeum, North Black Sea region 21-20 mm. High obverse relief. Struck c. 314-310 BC. Bearded head of Pan (satyr) right with pointed...
The coin is ugly. The reverse is not particularly interesting. There are thousands (of Probus varieties. Many varieties are quite beautiful, or a...
This statement does not need correction--because it is true. I have seen several Gallus in very bad shape, and now this very nice one, and no...
This is not quite stated right. Licinius was normal for the times and normal was with a short military beard. Constantine was different. He was...
The OP coin has reference ID RIC VI Thessalonica 61b "c. 312-313." The reason he has a beard is the mint was under the control of Licinius, not...
I have the "Collection Claudius Côte" sale "Monnies de Tarente" offered by Ratto in 1929. There are many varieties of the "boy on a dolphin" basic...
My preference is to give the largest and smallest "diameters" to the nearest mm. If I say a coin is "21-19 mm," you know it is slightly out of...
For Maximinus, year 4 (TRP IIII) is the rarest of that type. Your example is outstanding. Here is my page on the coins of Maximinus Thrax with...
and make the point very well. They really do look alike, don't they!
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