I bought an unidentified Byzantine trachy (cup-shaped coin) on eBay. Like many late Byzantine trachy, the flan has problems. It is bent and has a...
I wrote a short article about the type here: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/CON/CONSTANTINOPOLIS.html Later I expanded it greatly here:...
The VRBS ROMA is an ancient imitation. They are common from England. There are a few on my site about imitations....
Congratulations! That is thrilling! Give our regards to your wife, who did the hard work.
VOT XX refers to vows taken for 20 years of reign. Usually such coins are minted about 10 years into the reign, when the initial vows for ten...
Gordian III was about 13 years old when he became emperor in 238. Sometimes he really does look young. This coin is from 240, when he was about 15...
I have a web page with a type set for Aelia Flaccilla: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ricix/AeliaFlaccilla.html She only minted three types (not...
Thank you for the information. I got some coins from that collection and I am pleased to know about "The Morris Collection."
The three on the left are wonderful. Left-to-right they have fabulous pictures of spectacular coins a scholarly nearly up-to-date survey of...
The boy-riding-dolphin type of Taras (= Tarentum, on the inside of the heel of Italy's boot) is very well known and comes with many varieties. We...
That's a beauty! Magnus Maximus is not the most common of emperors.
I had collected late Roman coins quite a few years before I got my first siliqua. I was, and am, a big fan of late Roman AE, but I didn't expect...
A close inspection shows it is misdescribed. It is really "left foot squashing a rabbit running right" as the two big ears show.:happy:
I agree. We cannot say the quality control was high and every difference was intentional. There is a "Justin" AE4, Hahn's MIBE 34, plate 7, that...
I have one: [ATTACH] 9 mm. 0.80 grams. It is not in Sear, but Hahn, MIBE has it as Justin I, NN67, plate 10, dated to 522-527. I numbered mine...
For the rest of you reading this, don't buy coins on eBay without checking sites like this one first: [link corrected]...
If you need a microscope to decide if a US coin is interesting or not, it isn't. Visit the ancient coin forum where most threads concern history...
I like it for this. I don't want the AE mixed in with the silver. Like, most, almost all my RR coins are silver. I want them together and not...
@seth77 reminded us that Claudius Gothicus (268-27) died of the plague: [ATTACH] VICTORIAE GOTHIC 21-20 mm. 4.34 grams. RIC -- (because of bust...
[ATTACH] My rat goes to the right. 18 mm. 3.95 grams. Sear I 174. Crawford 297/1b (297/1a is rat to the left) "The desultor on the reverse...
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