Very impressive. I really like these Ptolemaic bronzes. What is the size and weight?
They are not particularly hard to find. A search on VCoins turns up a lot of them. So I'm not sure why they and their Balbinal cousins are so...
I'm a schoolteacher. I remember the year our school went through 6 different principals. That was also an exciting year.
Never thought I would be able to own a Pupienus, but I won this coin in a recent CNG auction. It came in a lot of 13 silver denarii and...
Here are two campgates of Flavius Victor. Neither is in good shape, so I'll post both and you can kind of piece them together in your head to get...
Just want to second this recommendation. The book's called "Fun While It Lasted," and it's the first thing that came to mind when I saw the title...
I didn't know you were a Hoosier, Doug. So then maybe you can explain what that guy was saying to me when he said: "I'm searce, man, yer ignernt"
[IMG] Silver Denarius Antioch mint? Obv: IVLIA SOAEMIAS AVG Rev: VENVS CAELESTIS - Venus, diademed, standing left, holding apple and scepter; star...
Latin was spoken over a very broad area, over a great time span, and by people with many different dialects and accents. If you imagine how much...
Gillian Bradshaw, who writes a lot of historical fiction set in the late-Roman - Byzantine eras, has a novel called Imperial Purple about a slave...
I saw yours after I posted my photo. The style of the letters look pretty similar.
A Greek-speaking engraver was my first guess, too. Here's a quick-and-dirty image of the coin. I'm guessing it's probably RIC 95, attributed to...
I have an antoninianus of Gordian III with an obverse legend that should probably read IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG but actually reads FHL rather...
The last one is Constans, minted around 347-348 A.D. Obverse inscription: D N CONSTAN-S P F AVG. The reverse is VICTORIAE DD AVGGQ NN and depicts...
It was much more important that the emperor's portrait be well-presented than the reverse, so obverse dies tended to be replaced more frequently...
Here's mine, Leg XIX. I bought this around 15 years ago for about $20: [IMG] Silver Denarius Traveling legionary mint Obv: ANT AVG / IIIVIR RPC -...
Reverse is pretty soft and rough, but a nice obverse portrait: [IMG] Billon Antoninianus Siscia mint Obv: IMP C PROBVS P F AVG Rev: PAX AVG -...
Here's one of my favorite Constantine mint marks: [IMG] Lugdunum (Lyons) mint, A.D. 320 RIC 79 (var.) Obv: CON-STANTINVS AVG Rev: VICTORIAE LAET...
Constantine I ("the Great"), as Caesar: [IMG] Rome mint, A.D. 307 RIC 196 Obv: CONSTANTINVS NOB CAES Rev: CONSERVATO-RES VRB SVAE - Roma, in...
And what the heck is Constantine doing wearing Spock ears on this coin? [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
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