Here is another left-facing tetrarchal follis:[ATTACH] Galerius, from Trier, with the rare FORTVNAE REDVCI AVGG NN reverse legend.
I like late Roman copper. You and see I do on my site: http://esty.ancients.info/ricix/ For the primary ancient source for Valentinian and Valens,...
Here is a Diocletian facing left from Lugdunum: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Lugdunum depicts him with a sharp pointy nose and has an altar for Genius.
YOC, it is an excellent coin. Yours is very nice depicting Maxentius in consular robes and being issued in a consular year, with legend ending...
Isn't the anepigraphic a Constantius II?
[ATTACH] Doug wrote, "Now is the time for you to post your examples of this same type (not just any Republican)." Here is my coin of Doug's type....
They are very nice examples. Welcome to the club! Visit http://esty.ancients.info/ for lots of information about ancients and collecting them
Have you looked in your public library? My city is not large and our library has several ancient-coin books worth reading. And, we have a...
I have reviewed many basic ancient-coin books here: http://esty.ancients.info/numis/learnmore.html -- Warren
On page one of this thread there is a large and attractive coin of Severus Alexander from Amasia in Pontus/quadriga facing on rectangular altar....
[ATTACH][ATTACH] Antoninus Pius, as. The reverse displays two ANCILIA. Wikipedia says, "They were twelve sacred shields kept in the Temple of...
I have reviewed some very good ancient-coin books here: http://esty.ancients.info/numis/learnmore.html on my page "How to learn more about ancient...
I suggest that beginners start here: http://esty.ancients.info/numis/ and check out links here: http://esty.ancients.info/numis/sitelinks.html and...
Here is a short web page on Geta's portraits: http://esty.ancients.info/Geta/ It is interesting that his name changed after his first issue from...
[ATTACH] Here is another "S R" example of the extremely common VRBS ROMA type. This one is from officina gamma. Coins may be "rare" or "very rare"...
Maybe, in general, people could post images of less than 100kb as opposed to 9 mb. With 35kb (less than 1/200 the bytes) one can usually get an...
Doug's question about when the meaning of "SECVRITAS" changed led me to make the site more thorough and informative with more coin photos and more...
That is an excellent example. Congratulations. For a bit more information on the type, see http://esty.ancients.info/CON/CONSTANTINOPOLIS.html
I wrote a short web page about Roman imperial coins with legend including SECVRITAS, which has an obvious modern meaning which is not quite the...
Yes, it is my coin.
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