Some beginners want to know more about ancient coins in general. Some have specific questions they ask on CT. CT is a good place to learn. Many of...
Herennia Etruscilla was the wife of Trajan Decius (who reigned 249-251) and mother of his sons Herennius Etruscus and Hostilian. She in on...
Ancient-coin collecting is a hobby of the mind. It is what you know about them that makes them more than just small disks. First you learn they...
I bought one coin in a Swiss auction that closed June 30. It arrived yesterday after over two months in customs. July 6 Post Office tracking had:...
I already have a large library of books on ancient coins, so I wasn't expecting much when I got Rynearson's book Collecting Ancient Greek Coins in...
I have been gradually adding to my pages: http://augustuscoins.com/index.html including this Herennius Etruscus from Antioch: [see the site for...
Alexander the Great had a major influence on the world, including the world of numismatics. He minted tetradrachms in massive numbers and they are...
In 970 A.D. under emperor John I the copper coinage of the Byzantine empire underwent a remarkable change. Until then copper coins had the name...
I use Chrome. It is a google product and comes with the ability to automatically translate web pages. Of course, everyone knows translation can be...
I have a page of inexpensive $5-$15 ancient coins for sale: http://augustuscoins.com/inexpensive.html It is linked to my main page of ancient...
Has anyone else noticed this? Twice in the last three days I have gone to PayPal, paid with "send money" and not gotten an e-mail notification...
When Vespasian died his sons Titus and Domitian issued coins with legends noting that they were sons of the deified Vespasian. Here is one of...
In the second century BC Rome was continually expanding. In Asia the Pergamene King Attalos III willed his kingdom to the Romans upon his death in...
I have added nice nice Constantinan coins, including four of Crispus, in the last three days: http://augustuscoins.com/Constantinian.html...
Over the years I have created some supplements to ancient-coin books I use. Here is a page of links:...
I added Byzantine coins to my page: http://augustuscoins.com/Byzantine.html including some rare late types of Theodore II of Nicaea, Theodore I...
I added one of the earliest portrait pieces to my site (362 BC) as well as three Cilician silver fractions: http://augustuscoins.com/index.html...
I just added ten $5-$15 coins to my "inexpensive" page: http://augustuscoins.com/inexpensive.html and removed many coins that had sold and...
The Mardin Hoard: Islamic Countermarks on Byzantine Coins, a 1977 79-page paperback, discusses a hoard found in southern Anatolia of c. 13,500...
I want to write about photos. This post was inspired by a recent win in a Naville auction. Here is their photo: [ATTACH] Roman Republican...
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