That, plus the fact that asses were more common back then (seems they still are today, but that's another thread) means that statistically, your...
I agree that it is probably a Vandalic-era imitation. With unidentified AE4s with cross reverses, start with Theodosius II (D N THEODOSIVS P F...
Three more offenses against numismatic aesthetics: [IMG] Marcian (Bronze) AE4 Constantinople mint, A.D. 450-457 Obv: D N MARCIANVS P F AVG Rev:...
They're in rough shape, and the flans are pretty ragged. One possibility might be barbarous copies of Romano-Gallic radiates from around 260-275 A.D.
Your Valens attribution is correct. He's the only emperor from that time whose inscription read S P F AVG on the right. Nice score with the...
Once you put it in a plastic case you will no longer be able be able to hold it in your hand and think "I'm touching something that was originally...
Your coin is bronze, so scrubbing it lightly with a brass-bristle brush won't hurt it. The only kind of artificial repatination that I would...
Unfortunately, the more you learn about a subject, the more you realize that you don't know yet. This is especially true of ancient coins. That's...
I was going through a small lot of coins that I'd recently won in an auction and discovered something neat - a pair of father/son coins. Both...
Here's a couple of variants: This one has an unusual reverse inscription for the type: [IMG] Ticinum mint, A.D. 326 RIC 198 Obv: CONSTAN-TINVS AVG...
I still have this coin assigned to Laodicea on my web page. Perhaps it's time to defer to the "modern scholarship"? [IMG] Provincial Silver...
I don't know much about Legion XIX, but he's my denarius: [IMG] Silver Denarius Traveling legionary mint Obv: ANT AVG / IIIVIR RPC - Galley Rev:...
A couple first-year issues: First is a denarius of Geta from 198-200 A.D. Why, exactly, Septimius Severus wanted to advertise that his Caesar was...
Interesting. I'd never seen this before. Thank you for the information. Does it appear on coins of other emperors?
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