Beautiful! Lovely coin
Thanks - I had the link but somehow forgot to include it. Some of the coins from these cities were crude but most were quite beautiful and the...
During the wonderful time of the influx of coins from the Balkans the provincials from the area were freely available in high grade for insanely...
Does anyone know what Securitas meant to the Romans or was it simply the security of the state after an event such as the death of the co-emperor...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Over the last few years I have been spending a lot of time thinking about rarity as it relates to ancient coins - in our...
Hard to believe that the US used to make such beautiful coins - instead of the today's bewildering array of pieces celebrating whatever, including...
Yes Alexandria for reasons unknown was mentioned in my article as being excepted from the centralization of the coinage. That highlights,...
I don’t think I said 10,000 - I said thousands - look at the number of group lots for sale on biddr or numiscoins. These go on constantly while...
From the years 250AD to ca 280AD the Roman empire nearly collapsed. The rise of Persia, civil unrest, barbarian invasions, even climate change has...
Ancient coins is a hobby where prices stay the same even as huge numbers of the collectibles enter the market every year. Although it was...
Terrific post. Are there histories from the time that discuss the invasion? This must have been during the Latin takeover of Constantinople.
I am pretty sure that the passage of 124 years has allowed the condition to lapse and the coins can now be sold. Depends on state law I think -...
There might be a time limit on conditions attached to bequests - I’m going to check that out.
Great post - I will check it out. It is too bad, however, that museums do not sell their doubles or triples or instances where they have multiple...
This has to be the most absurd and depressing thing I have seen all day. All of these coins just sitting there rotting away - instead of being...
All the bronzes rotting away - along with thousands in museum basements doing the same, or the silver just sitting there along with whatever else....
yes, thanks -
I cannot attribute the larger coin - frustrating. It appears to be early imperial but nothing even closely resembles it.
Agreed.
The coins were not sent as a die match - merely to illustrate two kinds of the same type for the two emperors - there are about five or so other...
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