We on CT do know know enough about the "collection" to know if it is a serious collection assembled with significant expertise and expense, or...
This coin of Aurelian, 270-275, has a golden tone: [ATTACH] The coin looks just like its photo on my screen.
Nevertheless, Crispus didn't last long. [ATTACH] Crispus, 317-326. PRINCIPIA IVVENTVTIS AQT 21-20 mm. 3.33 grams RIC Aquileia 9 (but emperor has...
I like tetrarchal folles: [ATTACH] 30-27 mm. 8.75 grams. Galerius as Caesar at Rome, c.302-3 MAXIMIAVS NOB CAES SACRA MON VRB AVGG ET CAESS NN...
Sear 844 of Heraclius from Seleucia can look like this: [ATTACH] 31 mm. 10.51 grams. Year 7. The type is usually very poorly struck.
[ATTACH] Here is mine. 20 mm. 3.22 grams. RIC 81 "R, third issue" July - Dec. 240. $30 on eBay in 2001.
There is a very attractive coin exhibition of Islamic coins at the art museum of Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. For the duration of the...
On this page: https://www.icollector.com/Antique-Rare-Coin-Free-Shipping_as73255 the coins are replicas. That is a very bad recommendation for...
In agreement with you, I think it is a regular issue of Antioch. Those of us who spend years paying attention to coins of a particular sort, say,...
Justinian issued reformed (facing bust) folles in years 12 through 39 (538/9 - 565). Constantinople only minted folles until year 37, Nicomedia...
@Terence Cheesman showed an Antoninus Pius AE with a thunderbolt design. Here is a denarius: [ATTACH] Denarius. 18 mm. 3.08 grams. PROVIDENTIAE...
In the 1970's I had a similar bottle, a bit shorter. One day I accidentally knocked it off its foot-high stand and when it hit the table it...
Oliver Hoover's blog about this: http://numismatics.org/pocketchange/yemen/
Wow! What a difference the new pictures make. The odd rim at 7:00-10:00 in the original obverse picture is gone. The "pit" in the nose is seems...
Are you going to enlighten us about the difference?
I agree there are signs it is a modern fake. The obverse shows casting pits and a casting seam on the left edge. If those are actually on the coin...
Here is a remarkable facing quadriga: [ATTACH] Maximinus II, 305-313 24 mm. 8.42 grams. MAXIMINVS NOB CAES/SOLI INVICTAE Struck as Caesar, May...
Thank you, @svessien ! That is an excellent site. It has some good links that I didn't notice at first. For example, click on "Coins" and then on...
Here is a Claudius II VIRTVS AVG. It is like the one of @Shea19 above. [ATTACH] 20 mm. 3.05 grams. I got it because of the silvering, which is...
Yes, the OP coin is a beauty of great interest and rarity--well worth a bidding war.
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