Late Roman AE was very commonly imitated in the Constantinian era. However, imitations of Valentinian through Honorius are not so commonly...
If you want to learn about late Roman AE, which I think is a great area to collect, here is an educational site: http://esty.ancients.info/ricix/...
Here's my Leo I/lion looking back: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] DN LEO PF AVG CON mintmark. 12 mm. RIC X 674, page 293, plate 26 The lion looks to be...
Not Tificus, rather Tifia.
TIF, the OP is a great coin, and apparently at a great price. Congratulations!
Yes, it occurs mostly in the 4th C. Then again, you can see it on Marc Antony/Octavian denarii. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] It didn't turn out the way...
One way to show that a ruler was junior was to depict him with an unbroken legend and a small head: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Constantine II, 317-337-340...
If all you want is an ID number, on-line sources can do that. But books like BMC and RIC actually have exposition that is interesting and books...
There are two editions of Jenkins, Ancient Greek Coins. In contrast to every other book with two editions I can think of, the first is far...
The original author about this gouging practice agrees with Carausius and not what I wrote above. Stannard's article "The adjustment al marco of...
Adjusting them individually is the "al pezzo" (by the piece) method. That's what Doug said. The scoops (gouges) on Republican coins are not "al...
My friend DC, now nearly 90 years old, collected early Christian types from the fourth C. AD. He went to shows decades ago when hoard coins were...
I second the recommendation of chrsmat71 of John Anthony's "Collecting Greek Coins" book, even if you intend to collect Roman coins. Sayles volume...
In case you were wondering, the illustrated example 184/1a in Crawford is quite clear that it really is a butterfly.
The quiz has an error, at least in my Chrome browser. One had only three answers show up. The one about 375 that did not have the correct answer...
VK, that is a nice coin made even better by the excellent writeup. Thanks!
One time I visited a collector who got trays from England and had a case built for the trays. It was interesting enough that I took this photo:...
I have numerous important and interesting ancient-coin references for sale. All were previously priced better than anywhere else and today I...
How wide is the magnifying window? How tall is it overall? The image scale is unclear.
Doug is right that if a diobol is about 1 gram, my Teos coin (above), at 0.33 grams, could not be a tetartemorion (1/4 obol). DeCallatay (citing...
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