We study antiquity which lasted a very long time. 40 years was long then, but short in our modern imagination. Consider our thoughts about...
I just completed a new educational web page on coins of Maxentius that use the words Adfini, Cognat, Patri, and Socero....
Not quite. It was struck 20 minutes before an ancient collector walked into the mint, selected the best coin struck from recent dies, and walked...
I just added three of the quarter-follis denomination issued only at Sisica and for only a short while around AD 306. They have the usual follis...
Here is still another Licinius II (317-324) with the same ruler and almost the same reverse we saw above. [ATTACH] 18 mm. RIC Nicomedia 34Delta...
Both Fausta and Crispus are on the "anepigraphic" series, which dates the series to before their deaths (in 326). [ATTACH] CRISPVS CAESAR SMANTE...
I have some relevant books, but identifying Parthian AE is not easy. I think this one is Vologases III (105-147), struck 118/9 at Seleucia....
Extremely rare AE2 of Verina, wife of Leo I, 457-475 According to ERIC II, the 167th most common Roman person on coins. That's rare! 20 mm....
I have just updated my site by adding coins and I reduced prices on almost every coin on the main page: http://augustuscoins.com/index.html and...
In ancient coins there are "types" and within types, varieties. There are no rules (only, as a ghostbuster would day, guidelines) to make the...
Hear! Hear! CT is great place to spend time, enjoy coins, learn, and be with (cyber) friends. Give how few and far between we are on the ground,...
Here is a sestertius of Lucius Verus: [ATTACH] 31 mm. IMP CAES L AVREL VERVS AVG FOT RED in exergue TR POT II COS II around [not all legible]...
Septimius Severus, 193-211. Tetradrachm stuck at Laodicea. A big coin at 27 mm. Prier "The Syro-Phoenician Tetradrachms" 1148 [possibly the same...
In the OP the picture of Alexander from the "Alexander mosaic" shows him with wild hair. Here is what Romans thought Alexander looked like c. 90...
[ATTACH] Parthia Phraates IV, 38-2 BC tetradrachm 28-27 mm Sellwood 52 CΠC in the upper middle field (the precise date) Sellwood 51.19 Large...
I guess this one must be the "nine palmette" variety: [ATTACH] TRP IX IMP XV COS VIII PP
The mint was under Pilate's local authority, representing the Roman government under Tiberius. Hendin (Guide to Biblical Coins, 4th edition, p....
Excellent! I am going to learn how to do that. I have already begun at googlemaps: https://www.google.com/maps/d/ Thanks for the idea!
@ancientone, I like the idea of collecting a coin from each of the provincial mints. (I don't do it, but I like the idea.) I have a cork board on...
Many of us wonder what theme we should collect. Those of us with lots of experience agree there is no "should" to it. But, when you want to focus...
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