Bill Welch has a site that is quite educational. http://www.forumancientcoins.com/moonmoth/ancientcoins.html
I doubt that I will get to meet most of the people I communicate with coins about as the majority are in the USA and I live in the UK. I used to...
I am almost embarassed to add my coins to this thread in the company of those beauties! Philip II, Ar Tetradrachm Obv:– Laureate head of Zeus...
Indeed. BONA SPES legend should lead to Spes as the deity. Like this [IMG] In this case we have Fides who should turn up with legend BONI...
As far as value for money is concerned that is very hard to beat. A nice scowling portrait, full legends on both sides and a good reverse. What is...
Oh no I hear them all shout. Another Severan denarius! I must admit to being quite happy about adding this one and inviting it to join it's...
Happy B-day Bing..... and AP Antoninus Pius Denarius Obv: IMP T AEL CAES HADR ANTONINVS, bare head right Rev: AVG PIVS P M TR P COS II P P,...
My latest Hadrian is another eastern..... Hadrian Denarius Obv:- HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS P P, Laureate head right Rev:- COS III, Crescent with five...
My understanding is that most current thinking does not attribute any of these coins to Lyons and that the mint remained closed until the reign of...
What a glorious example........I will share one of my stable of GRYPHONS.. L Papius Denarius Serratus, Papia 1, Sym. var. RRC - Obv:– Head...
I started a Mars collection some time back which led me to buy this Claudius II Gothicus Ant Obv:– IMP CLAVDIVS P F AVG, Radiate, draped and...
It's much nicer than my only example of the type (June rather than May). I generally only collect ancients. This one came from an unsorted mixed...
What a nice thread. CIIG coins are often underapprecaited probably due to the poor production quality during this period. I bought a couple of...
Bing, Your first coin is L - */Z, which is year 7 and shares the same bust style as my year 6 coins. Milne 5032. Your second coin is L - H /B,...
But by year 7 the portrait style has degraded so much as to be almost abstract and almost unrecognisable. Diocletian, Billon tetradrachm Obv:–...
I find year 1 portraits of Diocletian reminiscient of the protraits of Probus. Diocletian, Billon tetradrachm Obv:– A K L OVAL DIOKLHTIANOC CEB,...
Within just a few years (by year 6 for example) the portrait had completely transformed and this is his standard portrait style. Maximianus...
I have dabbled with Alexandrian coins over the years and have bought a range of books. I managed to get a cheap, slightly damaged copy of Dattari...
I haven't bought much I have thought worthy of sharing with you for a while. I think that this little Greek AE is quite pretty (I have a soft spot...
Doug, We don't know. The most recent article on the subject that I am aware of is available as an offprint here:-...
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