Probus Obv:– IMP C PROBVS • P • F • AVG, Radiate, cuirassed bust right Rev:– COMITI PORBI(sic) AVG, Minerva standing left, holding olive-branch...
This is the earliest Lugdunum style for Probus. These two are contemporary with it. These are dated from November to December A.D. 276 [IMG]...
The style on that one is almost good enough to be official. I like that one a lot.
An absolutely awesome set of coins.
Spot on. Denarius Obv:– IMP C M AVR SEV ALEXAN AVG, Laureate, draped, cuirassed bust right Rev:– P M TR P II COS, Fortuna standing left, holding...
I know that many will be groaning as I resurrect this thread. Here are my latest two Papius coins. The first has already been shared here but the...
Thus coin has just arrived. I thought it would be interesting to see how many of you can explain why you think I may have bought it.... I will...
A couple more bought in the last year... Obv:– IMP C PROBVS • P • F • AVG, Radiate, cuirassed bust right Rev:– COMITI PORBI(sic) AVG, Minerva...
This coin ends PIVS AVG which is much more desirable.
I don't see anything wrong from the images.
Not really. The first issue of Rome also has XXI in exe. This is not followed in RIC but Pink re-attributed a set of coins that had been...
I think that they are die matches and I can add another obverse die match but from a different reverse die. Yours is an accidental nice find and a...
If only this were true. There are several cases where transfer dies have been created from genuine, common ancients and then these are used to...
I have/have had a few fractions. Diocletian Bronze denarius communis Obv:- DIOCLETI-ANVS AVG, laureate head right Rev:- VTILITAS PVBLICA,...
I can't see anything obvious. It comes from a known die pair. A quick search turned up several examples from the same die pair. The obverse die...
And on the following Seleukos I Tet it is upwards Alexander the Great, Alexander III Obv:– Head of (Alexander the Great as) Herakles right,...
On the following republican example there is a dolphin wrapped around it but the anchor is downwards. L Papius Denarius Serratus Obv:– Head of...
RIC is a bit vague but at the bottom of p. 328 the type is given as per your coin for examples in the previous issue RIC Aquileia 147 as my...
Nice find.
A lovely example.
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