Yeah ok, I have no idea what that is supposed to mean.
"The past is a foreign country ..." I think this quote by L.P. Hartley sums up my fascination with coins pretty well. If you do family research...
Sure, there are always collectors who go for the lesser conditions and that is absolutely fine. If you are assembling a specialist types...
I once published an article on the so called Taman-imitations (3rd to 4th century imitations of Roman denari from southern Russia). Major auction...
I did, it confirms what I wrote earlier. COMOB is the official Roman mint mark and not a distinction for barbarian coins.
The question mark makes no difference. The bogus attribution is made to raise the coins' attractiveness and the question mark is added to cover...
... also some "barbarians" used the CONOB mintmark instead of Rome's COMOB. Below is the picture of another solidus from my collection (I have to...
The mint marks COMOB (or rarely CONOR) are not distinctions of "barbarian" mints. These are the official mint marks of Rome. Hence, a solidus...
This is not what I wrote. The mints of Rome, Ravenna and Milan had seized to be imperial mints at the moment when the Goths took over. They were...
The whole attribution is bogus - question mark or not. The Gepids never minted bronze or copper coins and such coins have never been found in or...
I think the official mints in Constantinopel, Nicomedia, Rome etc. controlled the quality of their dies fairly closely. I don't think that the...
I think collecting inexpensive coins is very rewarding, but there are of course drawbacks. As I said before, as a rule you will have to compromise...
This is not surprising, to call the Solidus in the name of Anastasius above a "barbarian Solidus" is a bit of a misnomer. The coin was minted by...
Really? To give you a few examples: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3110089 https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1679938...
I don't what to distract from my question above, but for comparison here are folles of Anastasius and Justinus I from official dies. [ATTACH]...
That is a great group. I tried something similar with my thread on "inexpensive beauties". Coin collecting doesn't have to cost an arm and a leg...
This Justinian may also be from unofficial dies, but the case is not so clear as with the two coins above. The style is crude and the legend is...
I have the following two byzantine or late Roman folles: The first one is in the name of Anastasius, the second one is in the name of Justinus I....
and a Milan mint issue, which is scarcer than the coins from Cologne: [ATTACH]
Some more nice portraits and reverses: PAX AVG and SALVS AVG [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
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