The first one in Constantine/SOL, one of the commonest ancient coin types of all. There are, among the very many mints and control marks, some...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Vespasian denarius. 18-17 mm. IMP CAESAR VESPASIAN CAESAR AVG F COS CAESAR AVG F PR Heads of Titus and Domitian, bare,...
You can identify late (post 364) Roman AE here: http://esty.ancients.info/ricix/ It is type 6.
I have Lecam's book on late Roman gold "La fin de l'Empire Romaine et le Monnayage or en Italie" and it has 31 examples of this denomination for...
Did you know CoinTalk has a forum for selling coins? https://www.cointalk.com/forums/for-sale/ Members who want to sell coins ofter them there....
I added ten Byzantine coins to my site at the top of the page: http://augustusmath.hypermart.net/crosses.html Most of the new ones are of Manuel...
Here is a different type of Severina/CONCORD MILIT with Concordia seated [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I agree about the $20 number, although their condition is below "collectable." Identify them and give them away to kids who exhibit any interest.
Iotape, Queen of Commagene, wife of Antiochus IV who reigned 38-72 AD. Struck at Samosata. AE24 Her portrait right. Scorpion KOMM .. around from...
I know it is a free country and firms can open lots at any price they want--we are not forced to bid. But, putting an $800 opening bid on a...
Dionysos in a biga of panthers right. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Severus Alexander (222-235) at Seleucia ad Calycadnum in Cilicia (northeast edge of the...
I now understand that the title of the thread refers to a firm that auctions coins.
Here is a SAFRA denarius: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] 18 mm. 3.81 grams. 150 BC Crawford 206/1. Sear 85 Victory driving biga right
Officina numbers are spelled out on issues from the Rome mint. See this site for more about them:...
The video about how an electrotype is made was illuminating. TIF, thanks for the link.
But it is only December 26! There is lots of time left for one more!
I, too, thank John for running the Secret Santa event. Judging from the numerous happy posts, it was a great success.
Hoover is remarkably complete and I expect it will replace BMC for having citations to almost everything, especially when all the volumes are out...
Carthago, your quinarius is in King, Roman Quinarii (2007), as Republic 83, with only 3 examples, and the illustrated example, example c, is worse...
A dozen or two posts back Cyrrhus shows us a group of seven Greek coppers he got for $110. They are quite attractive and very interesting. It...
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