An impressive collection - I am still missing several but do have this [ATTACH] DIVVS PERT PIVS PATER bare head right. Rev: CONSECRATIO
@ Valentinian - my example of the same type, with a rather odd portrait of Hadrian [ATTACH]
@Ryro - I have come late to this thread. Your mystery coin dates from a period when Kyzikos coins usually have a tunny fish somewhere in the...
Quite right - its one of Euainetos's unsigned dekadrachms
It would have to be lovely Arethusa [ATTACH]
@Bing - thank you for the interesting background information. Like, I suspect, many numismatists I think of Cleo as my muse : [ATTACH] Laureate...
Here is mine - Medusa's body is more of a lump [ATTACH]
This obol was sold as Asia Minor unknown mint , 5th century B.C. [ATTACH] 9mm., 0,74g. Facing gorgoneion Facing gorgoneion within concave...
Trajan Decius's Divi issues honour 11 emperors. Mattingly suggested that it was part of his policy of reviving old Roman virtues at a time of...
Dating : the more articles I read (several on Academia.edu) and references I look at the more confused I become. My dates are those assigned by...
As the two varieties were issued at two different weights, perhaps one was intended as a sestertius and the other as a dupondius ?
@medoraman - I share your interest in these early Baktrian issues . I will attempt to answer your questions : 1. I find HGC 12 a good reference...
@DonnaML - I have always liked the Volteia issue - here is another [ATTACH][ATTACH] M. Volteius M.f. AR Denarius 78 BC. Obv. Head of Liber right,...
I find the non portrait denarii of Augustus both interesting and attractive : [ATTACH] Augustus AR Denarius. 27 BC - AD 14. Spanish mint (Colonia...
I have only just come across this fascinating thread. This dupondius has the open P's you referred to . Is there a reason for this stylistic querk...
@Julius Germanicus - thank you for answering my query
@NewStyleKing - thanks for the explanation of the academic situation. I think I can live without searching for these papers !
@Julius Germanicus - thanks for the information.I should have done my research as thoroughly as you ! Forgive my ignorance, but what is Alram ?
I recently acquired this drachm of Kappadokia : [ATTACH] I thought it was one of the large and common issue of Ariarathes V - HGC 7 811...
@Nathan B. Volume 12 of HGC Handbook of Greek Coins) covers Bactria and Ancient India
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