The OP image looks a lot like the impression of a stamp seal. Even today some letter writers pour hot wax over the flap of an envelope and press...
Crawford was published in 1973. If you want Crawford numbers and dates for Republican coins (and you do), you need an edition of RSC I published...
RSC I (1978 edition) covers Republican coins and is still remarkably useful even though it is arranged completely differently from most. Long ago...
I like Justinian coins minted at Antioch. There were major earthquakes that changed the region, the coinage, and even the name of the mint!...
I think you mean Justin II and Sophia.
Here is one possibility. Maybe the OP monogram coin was severely tooled, that is, carved, and then repatinated. The depth of the "T", "S" and...
My Sear Byzantine 1109 of Constans II is one of those hard-to-decipher overstrikes with signs of three strikes on the obverse. The last strike...
Welcome, new member Valentinianus, from Valentinian.
There are sites on ancient fakes (which are not at all the same as fake ancients). Here is one: http://esty.ancients.info/imit/ It will tell you...
I am writing to bump this up to the top. Doug's Zeugma courtyard has "perspective". The further parts of the courtyard rectangle are depicted...
Bing, your coins #2 has it all. Gorgeous! Time to get rid of coin #1.
Not many ancient coins have images drawn in perspective. Most obverses are heads in profile. Some special Greek coins are heads "3/4 facing" which...
Here is a quinarius in that series: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Q. Titius, 90 BC. Crawford 341/3. Sear 240. Bust of Victory right (wing behind)/Pegasus...
Here is my nice Musa: Crawford 410/8 [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Urania, the muse of astronomy, "pointing with rod at globe on tripod stand" Sear 359. 66 BC.
It is a nice coin, but that does not look like a prow to me. Most prows have rams which project forward from the bottom as far or further than the...
[ATTACH] Valentinian II, 375-392 AE2. GLORIA ROMANORVM Emperor in galley left, Victory at helm. 378-388 22 mm. 4:00. 4.75 grams RIC Antioch...
I have abut 30 Roman provincial coins for sale on this page: http://augustusmath.hypermart.net/RomanProvincial.html Today I put up new pictures...
I believe many ancient-coin collectors do not know what coins they want are worth (in spite of being able to look them up in many places on the...
I concur. It's a fake.
I save pedigrees, at least back to the dealer, but these three came from a collector from whom I was unable to get any records at all.
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