Justinian's coins at Antioch: http://esty.ancients.info/interesting/Justinian.html If you don't know the story of the calamities at Antioch...
Zumbly, I would think that if a coin sells for more than the estimate the estimate was an "underestimate," so your worst cases were of...
I just posted a minor web page about long Roman Imperial mintmarks. http://esty.ancients.info/longmm/LongMintmarks.html The Julian coin is new and...
My site: http://esty.ancients.info/imit/ illustrates many ancient imitations and has an extensive annotated bibliography on the "references" page:...
The eBay description says 10 mm and 4.01 grams. Something is wrong about that. The diameter is not enough for the weight. I agree about the likely...
Wow! I don't collect English coins, but that sure is impressive. That's one I wouldn't mind owing. Congratulations!
Just so readers know, the top of the obverse is at 4:00 in the photo. The detail you can see at 9:00 - 12:00 is his cuirass.
[ATTACH] Constantius Gallus 21 mm. 5.43 grams. RIC Siscia 335. This heavier one shows weights were not very consistent.
Here is one of Constantius II:[ATTACH][ATTACH] 22 mm. 4.03 grams. RIC Siscia 334 (said there to typically weigh about 4.25 grams).
Here is a Domitian as with natural red patina: 28-27 mm. 9.56 grams. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] It has a lot of titles: IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM COS XIII...
For beginners I recommend this site: http://esty.ancients.info/numis/ which answers frequently-asked-questions. It is part of a larger site:...
Dear Abby said in today's paper that Valentine's day has a connection with Claudius II (Roman Emperor, 268-270). So I looked on Wikipedia and...
The pictures are terrific. The coins are great. The site looks excellent so far. I wonder how the layout will work when you have many more coins...
Could it be an Alpha = A on a Byzantine nummis? They have a head on the other side which is often very weak. For example, Sear Byzantine #173.
[ATTACH] Doug noted an unsold Salonina of Alexandria in the Pecumen sale which had an estimate of 100 euros and an opening bid of 80 euros. Take...
The web site on the coins of Valentinian (AD 364) and later (RIC IX): http://esty.ancients.info/ricix/ now has, for the first time, an example...
Steve, your Constantine V is far better than most. It's a really good one.
[ATTACH] 24-23 mm. "reduced as". 13.20 grams. When zumbly posted his count, there were no centaurs. Now there are two on one coin. Thessalonica,...
I have heard of collectors (and widows) who were very disappointed at the value realized from a coin collection. Clearly the collector did not...
That is a great coin. For its attribution I accept the attribution to Datames (373/4-373/2 BC) in the 1986 ANSMN volume 31 article by Robert A....
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