I am trying to figure this out. You are saying that in the early period there is reason to think the introduction of peaked denarii was later than...
I added some interesting ancient coins to my site: http://augustuscoins.com/index.html The first is a small piece of Aes Rude and the second an...
Here is a Macrianus, struck Summer 260-early summer 261: [ATTACH] 20 mm. 4.77 grams. IMP C FVL MACRIANVS PF AVG INDVLGENTIAE AVG Indulgentia...
I didn't have this "quinarius" page until I posted it yesterday! It takes some time to put a page like that together. Your group of quinarii is...
The Roman quinarius was valued at half a denarius. The first issues accompanied the introduction of the denarius c. 212 BC and were discontinued...
Come on! Look at the evidence! They are the same coin, or cast from the same mold. The differences posters cite are invisible or so minor as to be...
My friend DC is 90 and a few years ago asked me to sell his remaining coins for him. Most are gone. The remaining coins are on my DC page:...
vauctions has an auction which closes this Friday, March 17, 2017. http://www.vauctions.com/ My coins include some nice Greek, Parthian, Roman...
I migrated my ancient-coin sale site to a new server: http://augustuscoins.com/ I added some Republican and imperial coins, as well as some...
The word "flip" does not apply to stapled mylar 2x2s. "Flip" refers to two sided plastic envelopes with room for the coin in one side and a paper...
I much prefer flips. You can't see a coin in an envelope until you slide it out. The back side of a flip has room for the info you could put on a...
[ATTACH] A tiny 9 mm AE beauty from Pergamum. c. 310-284 BC. Head of young Heracles rt./helmeted Athena right. ΠEP below. Sear Greek 3958. SNG...
I think in German ancient-coin catalogs "nachgeschnitten" does mean "tooled". At least, it is often used to described tooled coins, the design was...
If you had collected 20 years ago you would see many differences besides the internet. Sellers from the "Middle East" used to come to US shows...
Quite right. I really dislike the flash-flip format. Maybe they do it to prevent easy copying. The on-line Celator is in that irritating format...
If Gemini coins are too expensive, consider the upcoming vauctions coins. Vauctions have not been frequent recently, but there is one with many...
Some very good books are remarkably inexpensive because those potential readers who would have wanted the book two decades ago now expect to read...
Here are useful reverse indicies that locate where in the text each photo is discussed. Excellent books in the Seaby series titled Coinage in the...
I quote myself: I got the eBay feed again today. The price of this many-times-unsold baby has been raised to $245!
Before I looked at all of the replies, I thought "Gallienus". Given the relative frequency of Gallienus coins to HE coins, it is even more likely...
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