Fortunately, happy times are back (assuming you consider war, violence and bloodshed fun): [IMG] Constantius Gallus Caesar, A.D. 351-354 (Bronze)...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I've heard that Byzantine solidi tend to sell for about four or more times their melt value. So there would still be...
One last clarification: early Imperial bronzes often had a large SC in the center of the reverse, like those of Antioch, but these were surrounded...
In Imperial Rome, gold and silver coins were worth, more or less, their melt value. That was not the case with bronze coins, so their value was...
Sorry about piling on, but if I knew that a seller had knowingly sold fakes, I would never buy from that person. Why support a crook?
I had assumed that these coins were also Hephthalites, but Ed Snible informed me that the countermarks identifies them as from the western Turks:...
Under "Thessalonica": AES means bronze. Next are 4 possible obverse inscriptions, one for each Augustus/Caesar Next are 4 sets of different...
It looks like the reverse inscription is in a straight line rather than curving around the rim. This may be an illusion caused by the dirt...
The bottom coin is from Nikopolis, in Moesia Inferior. The top coin looks like it could also be from there, but the inscription break is...
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