Great OP coin, congratulations. Marcus Aurelius' Denari are pretty common of course, so I the favorite from my collection is a less common...
Here are two Antoniniani of Caracalla and Elagabalus, which I just bought on Ebay. Nothing special, but nice conditions at reasonable prices:...
As an economist, I tend to think in terms of "utility" rather than monetary value. If I buy a coin that I really want and like I derive a constant...
Could this be the most grotesk bust on a Fallen Horseman coin? (Not my coin, found it on Ebay) [ATTACH]
I found this picture of a statue of a Parthian. Note the wide trousers, just as on the coins. [ATTACH]
This is a fantastic resource! So the letter Gamma in the field indicates the denomination or weight standard. I wonder if it would be possible to...
Another favorite of mine from the mint of Alexandria. Note the scruffy barbarian with his long beard and unkempt hair. I wonder if the celator hat...
This is probably my favorite FEL TEMP in my collection. Note the wonderful medallic surfaces and the great portrait: Does anybody know what the...
I just bought this Constantius Gallus Fallen Horseman on Ebay (seller's picture with background removed). I'm pleased with the purchase. The coin...
Well, it was a promise broken and it certaintly didn't create financial stability. Also, the problem was not Nixon's gold shock, but the...
That is true of course. I think what Mundell was getting at is this: In the late 1920s, the Fed was still a young and inexperienced institution...
Nixon's gold shock of 1971 had nothing really to do with WW2. Also this was not about "returning" gold to Germany, France or Britain. Instead,...
I'm not saying that I share that view, but Canadian Noble Laureate Robert Mundell, once wrote that the US Federal Reserve created Hitler. I'm sure...
The mintmark PTR and STR is quite common on official Trier-coins of Constantinian II and Crispus, but I guess you mean the GLORIA EXERCITVS type...
I have been to Egypt several times. In the mid-1990s we stayed in Luxor for 3 weeks, exploring the whole region by bike and on foot away from the...
If I remember correctly, Licinius II is said to have ended up as slave in a tannery or something similar: These are my two favorite coins of...
No I haven't. Warren checked the provenance for some of the coins and found them to be true. I'm not sure though, if this coin was one of them.
As mentioned before, real silver standards existed in the middle ages until the 18 century or so. Later bimetallism, with gold and silver as bases...
The US was not on a silver standard. The silver content of some coins was a historical remnant without any consequence. The US was on a gold...
Some US coins retained a silver content into the 1970s, but that was just tradition. The US was not on the silver standard. Instead, the US had...
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