The reverse is type 18 on the RIC IX page: http://esty.ancients.info/ricix/type18i.html There are three examples there. He is very difficult...
I won a coin on eBay. eBay said I won and I paid with PayPal. I got the usual confirmation. The next day I got a PayPal full refund and a note...
I have used the German version for years. One of the many things to like about it is that is has counts of the numbers of the examples in the huge...
I wrote a long comment, using the link from Peter's blog site. It is not hard to do. Please put in your two cents worth.
If you are interested in Roman Provincial coins, RPC is expensive but a wonderful reference. All the common and scarce types for the early empire...
ISIS is destroying ancient artifacts in Syria....
A while ago any new search of vcoins brought up a sentence in the search box "Search over 271,000 coins." Now the same search says "Search over...
Here is another fibula: [ATTACH] 49 mm. They are pretty common. Usually the pin is broken (and replaced for aesthetics, as with this one).
Modern hokum, I think.
Fortuna is an Italian goddess who appears on many Roman coins. Here is an example: [ATTACH] Diocletian, 28 mm, Trier mint. FORTVNAE REDVCI AVGG...
When one gives an RIC number for this late period, it must be accompanied by the mint. There is an "87" at each mint. "RIC VII 87" does not...
I agree it is a fake. I suppose many of us have a "black cabinet" with some fakes. I have some given to me by friends who didn't know what to do...
I always do that. The question is, would you rather eat or spend that money on another coin? If you collect late Roman bronze, you can buy a coin...
Coins of some emperors are often not well struck. For example, mid third century coins are often struck from worn dies and the reverse dies are...
I won an excellent coin in the Pecumem auction as the only bidder and my limit was well above the minimum. I wonder if some potential bidders...
Here some advice about buying ancient coins: http://esty.ancients.info/numis/buying.html and some comments about auctions in general and eBay in...
Scholars are confident production of barbarous radiates stopped very shortly after the Gallic Empire was reconquered by Aurelian in 273. Why?...
In their catalogs beginning in 2004 the firm Freeman and Sear was offering argenteus pieces from an obviously substantial hoard. I do not know how...
Here is another Leo VI, AD 886-912, with a different Sear number, 1728, with a fancy throne: [ATTACH]
Here is a Magnus Maximus siliqua from Mediolanum (Milan). [ATTACH] [ATTACH] 17 mm. 1.50 grams. 12:00 die axis. VIRTVS ROMANORVM MDPS RIC...
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