Year 12 was 538, before the plague of 540. The reform pre-dates the plague.
Prior to Justinian's year 12 the follis denomination had a right-facing bust. In year 12 there was a coin reform in which the coin became larger...
They are now in your collection after having been minted 2000 years ago. They haven't oxidized too quickly so far. Many ancient coins new to the...
If you post a picture of it here, we can be on the lookout for it. Surely it will eventually show up.
[ATTACH] Galeria Valeria 25 mm. 6.21 grams VENERI VICTRICI SMSD RIC VI Serdica 41 "late 307-8" I don't think coins of Helena show a stephane...
Later, yes. Here is a coin of Diocletian minted at Carthage. The legend ends "FEL KART" [ATTACH] Much later when Justinian recovered Carthage...
My favorite emperor is Trajan. Competitors for the title would be Augustus if his coins were less expensive and Gallienus, who has both the zoo...
I collect Byzantine copper (among other series), but not gold. I could not bear to add only a few coins a year to my collection. By collecting...
You are so right. When I was young Mickey Mantle was one of the most famous baseball players. Does that mean a mint state rookie card of him is...
The CONSERV VRB SVAE type was initiated by Maxentius, as seen above. His father, the former emperor Maximian, joined Maxentius and began his...
The ANS just posted a video by Peter van Alfen on the coins Athens: [MEDIA] It is quite well done and he shows some outstanding coins. Here is...
I don't have a coin from my birth year, but that year was the 2000th anniversary of this coin: [ATTACH] A Roman Republican silver denarius,...
There already is NGC for coins. What we now need is WGC (Watch Guarantee Corporation) for watches. Grade and slab them--that's the trick! A great...
This is from my page on the Second Tetrarchy: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/tetrarchy/Second.html [ATTACH] Galerius, during the Second Tetrarchy...
Coin #5 belongs to @bcuda . His posts suggest he likes horses, Spanish AE, and late Roman AE. So, I inferred that he might buy some other AE. But,...
This thread would be sorter if it were about rulers who didn't die a violent death.
I just added some Arabic/Islamic coins to my website of ancient coins for sale: http://augustuscoins.com/index.html They are on the "Byzantine"...
Seleukos I, 312-281, a successor of Alexander the Great, famously had elephants. [ATTACH] A drachm. 17 mm. 4/16 grams. Laureate head of Zeus...
Here is Crawford 269/1, 125 BC, C. Caecilius Metellus [ATTACH] 18 mm. 3.92 grams. "recalls the victory of L. Caecilius Metellus, Cos. 251, over...
Welcome, @kirispupis . Here is a webpage with links to selected older CoinTalk posts I thought collectors might find interesting....
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