In August 2018 I started a thread https://www.cointalk.com/threads/byzantine-anonymous-folles.322682/ announcing my web site on Byzantine...
India has over a billion people. If many more of them get rich, they might want the Kushan gold. They will recognize the US nickel for what it...
Here is my site on FIL AVG and FIL AVGG coins. http://augustuscoins.com/ed/FILAVGG/#C17 The link skips down to images of coins of Maximinus II,...
I have a list of dealers here, more or less in order of usefulness. http://augustuscoins.com/ed/dealers.html Some near the end are so minor they...
Licinius II is not the favorite ruler of anyone I know. That is not all bad. His coins are therefore less expensive than they might be. One could...
Not in RIC: [ATTACH] Maximian, second reign, or Galerius, struck autumn 307-end 308 GENIO POP ROM S A in fields PTR in exergue RIC VI page 217...
This thread has 27 posts and these two reverses of Fausta have not yet been shown: [ATTACH] 18 mm. FAVSTA N F 8-pointed star in wreath RIC...
Trajan, Roman emperor 98-117, issued many coin types that referred to particular historical events. Here is an educational page that discusses his...
Coin with Arabia: [ATTACH] Trajan, laureate bust right with slight drapery on far shoulder Denarius. 19 mm. SPQR OPTIMO PRINCIPI ARAB ADQV in...
How much does it weigh?
Those are magnificent coins! The three-sisters coin is a treasure, as are the others. I'm seriously impressed!
Coins attributable to Palmyra are rare. Here is one: [ATTACH] 15 mm. 2.65 grams. Three busts, sometimes identified as "Serapis facing, Sol on...
Are those all yours?
Here is a web page on ADVENTVS types: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/PROFECTIO/ADVENTVS.html It has a list of the emperors who issued ADVENTVS...
Years ago I corresponded by postal mail with a collector who collected coins from cities that St. Paul visited. I don't collect that theme, but I...
Happy birthday, @jamesicus ! I like your web pages and wonder if you have figured out a way to make sure they endure forever. I have web pages and...
Every ancient coin has two sides, and often they are not in the same condition. Even the OP coin is better on the obverse than the reverse. It...
@rrdenarius , I know only a bit about weights (I have Bendall's book on them). I do not think Byzantine coins have occasion to put an indication...
That one is 43 mm and 22.37 grams. It seems to me the large ones from Nikomedia tend to be a bit larger than the large ones from other mints.
This is true. I bought one of the OP type in 1978 for $350 from a dealer near Cleveland, Ohio. That was a lot of money, by far my most expensive...
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