In August 2018 I started a thread https://www.cointalk.com/threads/byzantine-anonymous-folles.322682/ announcing my web site on Byzantine...
Alan Walker of the firm Nomos in Switzerland wrote an e-mail advertising their upcoming auction. At the end he mused about cultural property...
P.S. I hope you have a sense of humor!
Your ID says "Flavian Fanatic." Can a true fanatic let an "R3" coin in good shape go? Maybe you could change it to "I have a mild interest in...
@Orfew , I conjecture that since @David Atherton sold them to you, he has even better examples. @David Atherton , am I right? That makes me...
I have Peus 363. That coin is not in it, although that auction had an extensive collection of coins of Persis and it can serve as a reference work...
I sent in a long comment opposing the MOU's (below). I hope you will make a short comment. I don't think length is helpful, but I had a lot to...
I just posted a page of links to interesting CoinTalk threads: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/threads2.html Those are threads from August 16 until...
[ATTACH] 27 mm. 12.36 grams. Restoration issue under Titus. IMP T VESP AVG REST Sear 2580. BMC Titus 265. RIC II.1 Titus 446 dupondius.
Edit: Wrong thread
I second what several others have said. First, it is an AE4, not an AE2. Second, it is very common. For an ancient coin variety, "a few hundred...
Here is a Tiberius as from Spain that seems likely to have been deliberately defaced. [ATTACH] 29-27 mm. Tiberius, 14-17. Struck at Turiaso,...
Sometimes RIC lists a coin as "common" yet the type is actually rare (even though RIC didn't make a mistake). Here is how that can happen,...
[ATTACH] Germanicus provincial from Anazarbaus. 28 mm. Struck 48/49 under Claudius. ΓERMANIKOC KAICAP bare head of Germanicus right Bust of Zeus...
Jugate heads and vis-a-vis heads on one coin, and ships on the same coin! That checks a lot of "this is cool" boxes!
I think it is okay to be confused by our terms for various ancient-coin denominations. What you really need to know most is the diameter, so you...
Not only is that a great coin, it is a great post! Thank you very much for your extensive comments. That coin type sure has an interesting...
Theme: Sagittarius [ATTACH] 29-27 mm. 8.50 grams. Artuqids of Mardin (Mardin is a city in eastern Turkey very close to the border with Syria)...
[ATTACH] 31 mm. Husam al din Yuluq Arslan, struck 596 AH = 1199/1200 AD, vasal of two Ayyubids: Al Afdal Ali and Calif al Nasir Figure seated...
[ATTACH] Claudius, 41-54 One of the twelve Caesars 27-25 mm. 9.77 grams. Struck 41-50 TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG PM TRP IMP head left Minerva...
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