@AncientJoe was waiting for a specific coin, not just a coin type. I haven't had occasion to do that. It would have to be a pretty special coin to...
On many occasions the ancients reformed their coins. The reform of Tiberius II is one you almost never read about, but it must have existed. His...
Among coins with many other themes, I like coins with early Christian symbols. The bold chi-rho makes this is my favorite Delmatius: [ATTACH]...
At least one collector made river gods his collecting theme. The collection was sold by Helios in auction 3, Helios 3, 2009, April 29-30. 482...
This post is intended to point out that two coins in this thread both use the shape "R" for what we normally think of as "B". Doug was writing...
Here is an uncia (if that is the right name for the denomination) of Hadrian: [ATTACH] 10 mm. 1.18 grams. Sear II 3705. "Rome 117-8". RIC 629b...
Yes.
A rostral column (a column decorated with ships' prows) surmounted by a cloaked figure (Augustus?). Legend: IMP CAESAR [ATTACH] Augustus, 27 BC...
This thread started with Sear 1853 of Constantine X and some people noted examples of Sear 1854, also Constantine X, overstruck on 1853. It is...
C R (Sear 1866) (The "C" is a lunate "S" (sigma), "R" is an epigraphical form of "B") ΣΤAYΡЄ BOHΘЄI "O Cross, help" P Δ "Romanus...
During the first and second centuries of the Roman imperial period the smallest denomination is usually the quadrans, four to an as, sixteen to...
Here is my Trajan elephant quadriga. [ATTACH] 34 mm. 25.49 grams. AVT TRAIAN CEB ΓEPM ΔAKIK Autokrater Trajan Augustus Germanicus Dacicus LIΔ...
I hope they are now correct. The second link with "pages" in the URL was wrong by my mistake. The links in this thread should be correct, but when...
Odd. That is unintended and I don't know how it occurred. Can you tell me the URL? I intend the whole site including the main page...
Thank you for finding that. I fixed it and it is working now. If anyone finds a mistake, let me know. Web pages are easy to fix.
I wonder how they think they know it is actually ancient? The style brings up lots of questions (see the comments on historum) as to which century...
I have an old web site on reverse types unique to a particular emperor: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/unique/unique.html It shows reverses which...
Here is my page with an AE type set for Aelia Flaccilla: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ricix/AeliaFlaccilla.html Here is an AE2: [ATTACH] Aelia...
You don't need me to tell you that is an outstanding group of individually wonderful coins, but I confirm it is! [ATTACH] This is a...
I don't think Thucydides is asserting they were paid each day with two individual drachma coins. Drachmas coins exist, but are far rarer than...
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