It's nice when the coin says SVLLA: [ATTACH] 84-83 BC. L. SVLLA, IMPER ITERVM (Imperator for the second time) with two trophies and jug and...
That is an excellent and entertaining book. Here is my review from this page on Byzantine-coin reference works:...
I started collecting ancients in grad school. I had been a US coin collector (not very serious) in my childhood. In the academic year 1971/2 I was...
I love it! I collect Turkoman bronze and can attest that the OP Nasir al-Din Mahmud coin is outstanding. Yes, it cost more but, after you have a...
Victor listed some major references and his page about late Roman imitations: http://www.constantinethegreatcoins.com/barb2/ I have a page about...
Here is a late Roman imitation almost as well-done as an original: [ATTACH] Theodosius. AE2. 21-20 mm. 4.84 grams. Check out the obverse legend:...
I have a web page on distinguishing between Maximian and Galerius: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/tetrarchy/distinguishing.html The OP coin is from...
I have a website on VOTA types: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/VOTA/ They are common. In the late fourth century, many are AE4s with VOT/X/MVLT/XX in...
Being a generalist, I have bought some Parthian coins, but I didn't try to fill out the series or pick up rarities. Back when I bought this coin...
Some historians say that all the tetrarchs look alike. In some stylistic sense that is so, but in detail it is not. I happen to like coins of...
@nicholasz219 , I love your spelled-out vota-year coins. Excellent!
@Andres2 , your OP coin is beautiful. Here is a sestertius of Otacilia Severa: [ATTACH] 30 mm. 19.92 grams. MARCIA OTACIL SEVERA ACG CONCORDIA...
Those are excellent Turkoman bronzes. Arabic in a CT post! I wouldn't know what to insert or how to insert it. I have a web page with references...
Offer them here on CoinTalk at the "for-sale" forum: https://www.cointalk.com/forums/for-sale/ If you price them at full retail they probably...
Most Islamic coin types consist of Arabic legends without images, but in the 12th and 13th centuries Turkoman rulers in eastern Turkey and Syria...
The flans of the first two have very similar manufacture which seems to be the way official flans were made. (The OP coin has that type of flan,...
That is always a question with these. I think mine, the OP coin, is official. The lettering is too good for an Arabic imitation. I think your...
The island of Cyprus in the eastern Mediterranean Sea hosted a Byzantine mint (probably at the city of Constantina) for three years under emperor...
Sticker paper and paste have chemicals. I wonder if they have potentially negative affects? If you use clear plastic flips, you could have the...
I got this humorous take on history in an email today. I am repeating it virtually unchanged, except for including a Roman Republican coin (and...
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