Here are my ancient-world-related Christmas gifts: [ATTACH] My family knows not to try to buy me ancient coins; I do that myself. For some...
I love your posts because they are like a box of chocolates! Every coin is beautiful, historical, interesting, and all of them are different! We...
Here is a website about the title "DN": http://augustuscoins.com/ed/tetrarchy/DN.html The short answer is "Yes". [ATTACH] Maximian, retirement...
I bought this Flavius Victor AE4 in 1983. At the time I was getting a few thin paper catalogs a month and Flavius Victor coins were seldom seen....
Copper from Athens was mentioned, but not illustrated. Here is one: [ATTACH] 19-17 mm. 7.03 grams. Head of Athena in crested Corinthian helmet,...
@Claudivs , that is a nice representative group of ancient coins. My favorite is the whopping Justinian, but the others are interesting too.
The page devoted to the AE types of Valentinian III is here: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ricix/ValentinianIII.html Few AE coins of Valentinian...
Last night I made myself a dish of mint chocolate chip ice cream with half a banana sliced up on it, coated lightly in Hershey's Chocolate syrup,...
Eleutheria = Freedom, or, as @GinoLR wrote, "independence". I don't know about Greek coins, but there are coins of the Roman provincial period at...
Here is another one: [ATTACH] 21-20 mm. IVLIA MAMAEA AVGVSTA COLONIA BOSTRA SNG ANS 6 1231-1236. Kindler, The Coinage of Bostra, 40. Bought in...
If you write a vcoins dealer and offer a lower amount and it is accepted, they can mark it "sold" without changing the price to the actual price....
Elegant and modest. I have wondered why Trier issued a "loins draped" version of Genius, when Genius was naked elsewhere.
@Cucumbor , that is a super group! I'm happy to see that someone else thinks they make a neat series to collect. If anyone wonders about the...
Constantine II and Constantius II were brothers. Their names are so similar it can be hard to distinguish their coins if the legends are not...
Nice group! For more about the nine GENIO types, here is an educational page on them: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/tetrarchy/GENIO.html This...
I think that may be for the camel-alone type, which often comes well-struck on a full flan, but the companion piece rarely has the quality we...
Diocletian's coin reform of c. 294 initiated the very common GENIO POPVLI ROMANI type at fourteen mints. The type was replaced at central mints by...
Here is a DE SARM of Marcus Aurelius: [ATTACH] Denarius. 20-18 mm. 3.25 grams. M ANTONINVS AVG GERM SARM Laureate head right TRP XXXI IMP VIII...
Here is a page with some information about coins of the Kingdom of the Bosporus: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Bosporus/ It includes short...
The coin offered has a pellet below the bust, and according to the seller, the RIC on-line example "does not include a single pellet on the...
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