I just added eight nice Byzantine coppers to my site: http://augustuscoins.com/Byzantine.html including a very nice Class D, a rare and nice...
Helios (Munchen = Munich, Germany) The firm opened in 2008. Coins are very well-photographed in full color, with some enlargements, illustrated...
EDIT: Oops! I put this in the wrong forum. Please go to the "For Sale" forum instead....
River gods are occasionally depicted on Roman imperial coins and commonly on Roman provincial coins. As far as I know, there is no book that...
Since I last responded I got an e-mail mentioning a coin-- this one: [ATTACH] on my VOTA website: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/VOTA/ telling...
I watched it and went to the linked page mentioned in the video. The most interesting thing to me is that the source of the Aqua Traiana was...
We want ancient coins, so we invoke the (unnecessary) "investment" excuse/justification. It might not even be wrong. But, there have been threads...
@Voulgaroktonou , that is a fascinating post. Furthermore, the large-flan coins in it are remarkable. Thanks for writing them up.
Interesting. That is what I see for some items, but not for other items. For example, my URL to a Caracalla tetradrachm got me this page:...
I suppose eBay customizes pages depending upon one's bidding history. For example, I just tried the URLs of several coins I saved (some I bid on)...
Suppose I save the URL of an coin I'm interested in and go to the URL after it closed. I have started getting "The listing you’re looking for is...
Who is the "they" in that sentence? If by "they" you mean the graders/authenticators at NGC, I disagree. Their people are have many years of...
I have a web site "SECVRITAS: The real meaning" http://augustuscoins.com/ed/interesting/SECVRITAS.html I wrote it after the late Ted Buttrey...
The vota legend is particularly interesting because "DEC III" refers to vows for 10 more years, for the third time. This refers to the occasion...
Okay, I give up. I have most of the usual Byzantine coin books and the entire web at my disposal, but in four years and I have not found anything...
Here is an overstrike for sale. It is a large coin, 28 mm and 10.50 grams, with good reddish patina and good depth of strike: [ATTACH] At this...
Thank you, @Severus Alexander . I omitted that rare issue of Licinius. The Maxentius "QQ" issue is attributed to c. 310, which may still be the...
Roman emperors took vows (VOTA) promising to do something for the gods if the gods did something the emperor wanted. The emperor wanted a long...
@Caesar_Augustus , that is a wonderful first thread! I hope you don't think you must wait a year before you start another thread! Sometimes it...
I got mine from "Praetorian Numismatics" in 1997. It was an upgrade at the time and I have not managed to get a better one since then. My coin's...
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