The story of the finding is interesting, but I don't think it was an ancient hoard. If the guy could recognize a "deteriorated cloth sack", the...
An uncleaned half-follis of Tiberius Constantine, Antioch mint [ATTACH]
Seriously I think this is a cast fantasy fake. On Alexander lifetime and posthumous coinage, Zeus holds a sceptre, not a trident, never. The bird...
The Seleucids imported their elephants from India. The Ptolemies, Seleucid's arch-rivals, could not rely on the same commercial connexion. They...
Seleucid bronze coins are underrated collectibles. In the 3rd and 2nd c. BC the Seleucid kings minted not only silver tetradrachms - which are...
Coin #1 : Valentinian II, not I ! Coin #2 : Augustus, as, Rome mint, 11-12 AD (RIC 471) Coin #3 : like @Parthicus said Coin #4 : coin minted at...
[ATTACH] On this Pompei fresco you can see how Roman coins looked back then in the 1st c. On the left there is a pile of denarii and aurei. On...
In Rome you can change your name when you access to some form of supreme power. It's what the popes still do. The cardinal Jorge Bergoglio changed...
[ATTACH] Tiberius II Constantine, three-quarters follis, Constantinople Obv.: dm Tib CONS_TANT P P AVC, crowned, draped and cuirassed facing bust...
It can be a nice jewel for some lady....
I don't have an equivalent of this sestertius but I have this as : [ATTACH] Severus Alexander, AE as, Rome 231 Obv.: IMP. SEV. ALEXANDER AVG.,...
it must be a sestertius of Severus Alexander (222-235), reverse "Annona Augusti", same kind as this one (not my coin): [ATTACH]
looks more like a horse to me
[ATTACH] 1 : late 4th century imitation of a FEL TEMP REPARATIO coin, fallen horseman type. 2 : Antoninus Pius (138-161), as of Antioch on the...
I found the paper I had read about this: https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/precolumbian-coins-in-america-pdf.1549009/
There was a paper about it but presently I don't remember which one. It was never a mass phenomenon. I was told this also in the 1980s by an...
in the 16th-18th c. Europeans in America sometimes used old small Roman coins for trade with the natives. These ancient coins were rarely accepted...
[ATTACH] Elagabalus, Antioch on the Orontes, AE 8 assaria (= like a sestertius)
[ATTACH] Constantine V Copronymus, with Leo IV and Leo III, Æ follis. Syracuse, AD 751-775. Obv.: Half-length facing figures of Constantine V...
https://numismatics.org/pella/id/price.P189
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