Here is the picture of the Philip I Arabs Antoninian from the mint of Antioch with the AEQVITAS AVGG reverse. I bought it from the same seller as...
Thanks for the explanation. I have a Philippus I Antoninian of Antioch with AEQVITAS AVGG. I will post a picture later. They seemed to have...
Gosh, yes I'm blind. Thanks for pointing that out (also to Curtis Clay). Of course it is a denarius, which explains the price. I was completely...
I identified this Ant as RIC 240. I wonder why they have used the reverse legend AVG instead of AVGG. Philipp II has never been a sole ruler. Was...
Great, thanks a lot, so RIC 42 it is. Meanwhile I found a single exemplar on acsearch, which fetched an unexplicably high price, but perhaps...
I think the Romans accepted coinage at its intrinsic value right to the end of the Empire. The monetary system was basically split in a gold...
I think the silver content doesn't matter at all. The equivalent situation today would be someone presenting you with an official US dollar note...
Does anybody know the reference for this coin? Is it RIC 42 or 41? Is PAX AETERN (without final A) RIC 41 and PAX A E TERNA RIC 42? Many thanks
But I guess there is no definitive way of knowing if this mother coin is genuine or not either, or is there? Getting the alloy just right and...
I agree with Finn235. I'm by no means certain, but even before I saw the last post, it reminded me immediately of the typical "Emporium Hamburg...
I also bought this Philippus II Antoninian. I think the variant with AVG instead of AVGG maybe a bit scarcer. Not sure about the RIC number: IMP...
I also have no doubts that the coin is genuine. Here is another recent purchase on Ebay. I like the portrait of Philippus, which I think looks a...
I made a new picture of the Salonina Ant. The one I posted above is really bad. The coin looks small on the picture above. Instead it has a...
Do you have doubts about the authenticity of the coin? He has a 100% rating for what its worth.
Wow, that is a bid of luck. I found it on Ebay. I have several Otacillia Ants and bought this one only for the particularly nice obverse (which is...
I bought this Antoninian of Otacillia Severa: MARCIA OTACIL SEVERA AVG // PIETAS AVG I bought it because I think it shows a particularly nice...
This solidus was almost certainly not minted at Ravenna, but at an unknown mint in Gaul. Hence, they are sometimes called "solidi gallici"....
Here is a truly ugly, but interesting coin, I just bought. The coin is a quarter-siliqua of the Gothic kingdom. The coin was minted shortly after...
My point about money laundering was actually not meant as a joke. I attended an auction last year where one bidder bought all gold coins at...
Insanity is rarely a convincing explanation. What about money laundering?
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