Depends on what your budget is. If you go to VCoins you can compare the inventories of many different dealers. You can even have your search...
You might check your Romans to see if they, too, are cast copies. Look for soft, mushy details and small, circular pits in the metal.
Here's my favorite Arcadius: [IMG] (Bronze) AE III Cyzikus mint, A.D. 392-395 Obv: D N ARCADI-VS P F AVG Rev: GLORIA ROMANORVM - Emperor on...
I'd love to have one with the inscription C CAESAR AVG PET VIPER TIB PON M TR POT
I never knew this! Thanks for enlightening me.
Bing, I really like your coin from Marcianopolis. How confident are you of the obverse inscription? I assume that the portraits depict Macrinus...
Happy to oblige. Here are three from my collection: [IMG] Nero Caesar, A.D. 50-54 Augustus, A.D. 54-68 Bronze Sestertius Lugdunum mint, A.D....
I found this as below in a lot of uncleaned coins. That, of course, was many years ago: [IMG] Rome mint, A.D. 97 Obv: IMP NERVA CAES AVG P M TR P...
It is unlikely a Damnatio Memoriae would have lines through the SC, too, unless someone was angry with the entire Roman Empire. Furthermore, the...
I love the mystery surrounded these. Who is the figure? Is it a child? A barbarian? Is it the personification of the Roman people being led out of...
I think trying to distinguish official 5th century AE4s from Vandalic imitations from other imitations is an exercise that should be attempted...
Great collection, and I really like the presentation.
"Notta Fan" of what, his coins? I thought the three you posted were pretty cool. Or do you mean Constantine as a person? Yeah, he was pretty...
Same here. I started out collecting US coins. Then discovered the ancients section on eBay. Constantine was one of the few emperors that I knew...
It looks like the reverse is VICTORIA AVG rather than the more common VICTORIA AVGG type. If so, that makes Valentinian III the most likely...
And one from Cyzicus with a particularly uninspired portrait: [IMG] Cyzicus mint, A.D. 308-309 Obv: GAL VAL-ERIA AVG Rev: VENERI V-ICTRICI -...
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