Your coin may be too far gone to positively ID, but you should start by rotating the reverse 180 degrees. There appears to be a female figure...
Are you sure the 2nd letter is an M? To my tired, old eyes it looks like the mint mark might be SIRM, from Sirmium.
I get it. Gross, Randy.
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm boycotting Corona beer until all this is over.
The above coin is not a fraction, it's a regular nummus, a.k.a. follis. But there were other fractions issued during Constantine's reign. Here's...
That's a good point. My wife gets her hair cut by a woman who owns her own small shop. She doesn't even own the building; she rents it. She is...
I asked my dog what he thought of the condition of this coin . . . [IMG] . . . and he said: "Rough, rough, rough!" Constantine I ("the Great")...
Just had to post this one after Randy's: [IMG] It looks like a double die match, which I guess would not be all that surprising. Unknown mint,...
One thing I will give CNG credit for is that they don't "salt" their group lots. That is, they don't place one or two really nice coins atop a...
Thank you, Curtis. Just being able to connect a name with them makes them seem more special to me. The fact that you knew Phil Peck and considered...
I've gotten coins in envelopes before, but these seemed older than any I'd gotten. I'm judging that by the feel of the paper, not just by the fact...
I just received a lot of 8 antoniniani that I won in the last CNG auction. Three of the coins came with paper envelopes. The envelopes seem pretty...
Size and weight seem okay. Nothing suspicious there.
I do agree that the style of the obverse portrait seems a little off, particularly the eye. But there was a lot of variation, so I can't condemn...
In addition to Salonina, you might also want to add coins of Saloninus and Valerian II to round out the whole family. Saloninus (I just posted...
Here's another SPES PVBLICA, but with different reverse imagery. From the Cologne mint--notice the crudeness of the lettering. It looks almost...
Clam chowder?!? Goodness. I hope you mean New England style. But how do you butter soup? Doesn't the butter knife just break through the surface?
Panic buying has hit Ossining, NY! My wife just sent me out to buy a few items--cabbage, Triscuit crackers and some green scouring pads. It...
Amazing engraver typo! Talk about prescient.
Official coins of this breakaway empire are often so crude, and barbarous imitations so numerous, that it's just about impossible to say with any...
Separate names with a comma.
