I wonder what purpose this indication of "purity" and the distinction between 1/21 and 1/11 served in praxis. The silver content in both types...
Very interesting. These coins and especially the lower coin, don't look like they contain 10% of silver.
Hm, but in the third century, the Goths were nowhere near the Rhine, Raetia let alone the Narbonensis. Tacitus must have won the title of Gothicus...
Tacitus was awarded the honorific title "Gothicus Maximus" and, as we have seen, he minted coins celebrating a victory over the Goths. In fact,...
I fully agree. Coins are historical documents. Faking coins is like faking or distorting history. Fakes should be properly identified, published...
This is fantastic. I wish I had an exemplar with INVICTVS. Granted, the condition is not great, but INVICTVS is clearly legible.
Thanks a lot for this explanation. I completely ignored the IA, but thought I could identify TR, which is clearly wrong. So XXI and KA indicate a...
Finally, this Florianus Ant. is from Rome (I think). IMP C FLORIANVS AVG // VIRTVS AVG - II The portrait has no resemblance to the portrait...
My second Florianus is from the mint of Lyon (I think): The coin shows the long averse legend: IMP C M AN FLORIANVS AVG // VIRTVS AVGVSTI - II...
We should perhaps also speak about Tacitus' half-brother Florianus. His coins are a lot less common. He ruled only for about three months in 276....
This would be a nice sub-collection: Mars and all his appearances as victor, pacifier, revenger, preserver etc. I love the coin above. Such a...
I also have this nicely silvered Antoninian of Tacitus. I have it down as Ticinium. MARTI PACIF I find it interesting that Mars, the god of war,...
Thanks for the explanation of the officina letters. That is very interesting. So A-A is officina A or 1.
https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=7862445 I wondered about that too. The coin looks very "silvery", but unlike silver wash. I also find...
Cool, thanks. I corrected my records.
With a less conspicuous reverse, this fake would have been very hard to detect- at least judging from the picture.
Here is another nice example from the Ticinium mint. TEMPORVM FELICITAS I wonder what the letters A - A stand for on the reverse: [ATTACH]
I also have an issue from the mint of Rome, which I bought recently in an auction. FIDES MILITVM The portrait style is quite distinctive. It is...
I got this Tacitus recently (sales picture). The seller attributed it to Ticinium. Is this correct? I'm more inclined to think that the coin is...
Tactus held the title of "Gothicus Maximus" and he issued coins celebrating his victories over the Goths. This was the reason why I was first...
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