As Doug noted the TRP number was incremented every year and is used for dating when available. Usually it changed on December 10, whereas COS...
Doug is right. The vCoins Geta story got dates wrong. Look here for a short page with the correct dates and the story of Geta's evolving portraits...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] An amazing overstrike of a Roman provincial coin. One of the very best overstrikes and remarkably clear....
I have collected late Roman AE seriously for over thirty years. I am now offering coins from my collection at prices I think you will find are...
Here is an article on a small find in Wales:...
I am selling an excellent silvered Maximian follis (Genius has six-pack abs) http://augustusmath.hypermart.net/Tetrarchy.html and numerous Roman...
The OP was a small "galley" piece. In Britain the galley type was already imitated before the size was reduced. [ATTACH] Constantius II...
As you can tell from my username, I like Roman coins from the period of Valentinian and later. I have added ten from my collection (which has been...
Crawford wrote the standard work on Republican coins you hear about all the time. He also wrote another fascinating work "Coinage and Money under...
That's quite a story!
I live far from any city with a coin show. Every few years I get the itch and travel to the Summer ANA (Chicago 2015 and 2014 and Boston in 2010...
[ATTACH] Larissa, Thessaly. c. 395-344 BC. Lovely style drachm of 20 mm and 5.73 grams. There are many Larissa pieces in poor stype and this one...
If there were an award for CoinTalk ancient-coin MVP, I'd vote for Doug. His posts are interesting, educational, entertaining, expand the horizons...
I have collected fourrees for many years and have an educational web site on them. Now I am selling a few with very special reverses. The original...
Props to Insider for having the guts to delicately bring up the issue of authenticity.
Those are nice coins. Generally, buying from Bulgaria is a bad idea because so many fakes come from there. But, if you do, the next goal is to not...
Pick wrote Antike Munzen Nord Griechenlands. Someone (not me) photocopied the part of volume 1, part 1, about Marcianopolis and Nicopolis, pages...
I like FORTVNA types a lot. Here is one of Constantius I (293-306): [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Constantius I, Caesar 293-305 and Augustus 305-306...
That DIVO CONSTANTIO is remarkably nice!
VRBS ROMA with chi-rho between the stars: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Only at Arelate (Arles) which had been renamed Constantina in 328 in honor of...
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