It is very helpful when people point out dead links. They are easy to fix and I just fixed this one. A long time ago when @Suarez created his list...
Lot 837 was in the first part. It was a tridrachm of Trajan with three standards on the reverse.
I don't think it is a good image of any emperor. Only Nerva is depicted on coins with a nose like that and rest of the portrait is unlike Nerva....
@DominicP , maybe still another assertion that it is a fake will remove any doubts you have. It is a definitely a poor fake.
Byzantine history is, well, Byzantine. The complicated reign of Constantine VII illustrates it. There are more twists and turns than I can recount...
Long ago, in 2001, I wrote a web page on rarity of ancient coins, largely with US coin collectors in mind....
I enjoyed the historical fiction, The Shadow of God, by Anthony A. Goodman, about the siege of Malta in 1522 by Suleiman the Magnificent. Malta...
@Brian Bucklan , I have one of those too: [ATTACH] I got it from a Kovacs fixed-price list in 1987. Later, Hahn used the photo for a plate coin...
My favorite fictional account of Cicero's life is Robert Harris's trilogy beginning with Imperium. I got it as a stand-alone book and was eager to...
It is a Germanicus, not a Caligula. I think it is authentic.
Mine is much like the OP coin, but with more legend visible on the left and less on the right. [ATTACH] This diobol is 13 mm and 1.23 grams....
Wow! What a wonderful piece! Also, the pedigree is amazingly long and distinguished.
In the 5th century most Roman AE coins are small or very small. The mint of Cherson (in Crimea, a peninsula which projects down into the north...
NAC has a provincial coin with clear perspective: https://www.sixbid.com/browse.html?auction=5926&category=197771&lot=4948026
@Shea19 , that's a nice coin. Welcome to CT! Why did Nero put Tiberius on some of his coins?
The towers on the walls might on the actual wall be of equal size and equally spaced. A photograph of them would show the ones on the far side...
@Rossw74 , my beginner's guide: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/numis/ has a page on buying and a page on places to buy (dealers), as well as pages...
The OP coin is excellent. My favorite year for Severus Alexander is year 5. Here is one: [ATTACH] Severus Alexander, Roman style Alexandria...
I think it is super easy with TransferWise. You are in their system because you have used it to pay. Give your e-mail address to the person who...
Kevin Butcher in "Coinage in Roman Syria," has another take on what is depicted. He writes, "tertrastyle temple on a hill, with structures at base...
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