I have a web site on reverses unique to a particular emperor. http://esty.ancients.info/unique/unique.html It has been up for a year. Today I...
The term "grade" refers to wear alone. You don't have to like that fact--it is just what "grade" means. The coin shows no wear. It is the strike...
The fakeseller is also on this fakesellers list: http://augustusmath.hypermart.net/fakesellers.html If you wonder about a seller, perhaps...
Given a choice between a sestertius and a denarius in the same condition, I would pick the sestertius. Bigger is better!
I wonder how many of you Roman coin collectors would consider adding an emperor with a "Roman Provincial" instead of a "Roman Imperial" coin? Here...
As you may know, the finest catalogs in the world are produced by NAC (Numismatica Ars Classica, from Switzerland). Recently they put out...
You can get an excellent Philip for $40. To me, that makes the Philip worth much less than $30.
The current Agora auction 60 at http://agoraauctions.com/ has a number of my coins for sale, mostly Roman provincial. Unlike lots in some...
Hirstova and Jelov's 2006 book "Marcianopolis" has this reverse design, including the scale and cornucopia, as 6.33.354.2 (four pieces...
Even Byzantine-coin lettering, which is usually bad, is not as bad as on the OP obverse. It a fake.
Mine is for sale at the current agoraauctions.com auction 60, lot 110: [ATTACH] Troas, Alexandria Troas. Civic issue. Mid-late 3rd century A.D....
Today I added to the references on dating Republican coins, with comments. http://esty.ancients.info/Repub/TimelineTable.html (The bulk of the...
Probus sometimes has cool armor and shield: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] VIRTVS PROBI AVG MARTI PACIF, Mars the pacifier walking left holding olive branch...
I collected ancient imitations, fourrees and barbarous radiates, for decades. Here are some of them for sale, remarkably inexpensively. Many are...
Four-horse chariots -- quadrigas -- are common on ancient coins. Chariots drawn by four other animals are less common. Here is one drawn by four...
The reverse type is usually as big as the flan, making off-centering often cut off something important like a horse's head, which I think happens...
Here are some major ancient-Greek-coin reference works for sale. I believe they are already priced less, sometime much less, than anywhere else....
Here is an example of the famous wresters/slinger type. It is not from Olympia, but comes about as close to showing games as you can get with an...
Here is one of Theophilus alone: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Theophilus, 829-842 28 mm. 7.87 grams. Sear 1666 ΘE-O FIL bASIL "These are the last...
It is even possible Christianity might be different. Constantine had a lot to do with the choice of which books made it into the Bible and which...
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