Yes, it is, according to Rule 3 on http://augustuscoins.com/ed/tetrarchy/distinguishing.html
This coin is an aurelianus (a.k.a. antoninianus), a pre-reform radiate. Galerius became Caesar in 293, only a short time before this denomination...
Maxentius has numerous rare types. Here is one: [ATTACH] Maxentius. 25-24 mm. 6.97 grams. Struck mid to late 309. VICTORIA AETERNA AVG N MOSTP...
A friend asked me about why some coins of Galerius did not have "Galerius" on them. Good question. I created a web page about how to distinguish...
Here is the page: [ATTACH]
This coin has grapes! It is from Soloi in Cilicia: [ATTACH] 20-19 mm. 10.84 grams. Amazon kneeling on left knee examining bow with both hands,...
By "auction" do you mean eBay? The quality and likely value of that coin is below the usual auction-firm minimum. I have seen Arcadius AE2s that...
Metcalf (D. M., not William E.) proposed the existence of Class A3 in Metcalf, D. M. "Interpretation of the Byzantine Rex Regnantium folles of...
They are not pictured in the book. So, perhaps you mean the types of those coins as opposed to those particular coins. So, can you tell the list...
I don't think modern scholarship agrees with this. Scholars doing experiments find it easy to strike coins cold and the advantages are obvious....
By the way, if we do go to the summer ANA in Chicago, be aware that google maps and some google searches do not find the closest hotels (which,...
I vote for this one. I have been to the summer ANA "World's Fair of Money" several times and it is always good for ancients. Furthermore, it has a...
About Class A3. Class A2 began c. 976 and lasted until 1025 or maybe 1034 [Grierson]. That's 50 years. Fifty! It is no wonder that inflation made...
@TIF answered the OP question. Here is a site on anonymous folles: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ByzAnon/ I wish people would no longer attribute...
Gordian III (238-244) often is clean shaven (or, too young to have sideburns). However, some of his last coins show sideburns and this one even...
@arizonarobin , those OP babies are special, and thank you for showing them to us. On this one the infants are not remarkable, but Fausta's...
Sometimes the information of the slab makes the coin seen worse than it is. I have seen "3" assigned to surfaces I actually like. I have seen...
If you want to know more about VOTA coins, see my page http://augustuscoins.com/ed/VOTA/ On a linked page covering VOTA coins of the mid-fourth...
Yes. All her coins are CONSECRATIO--after her death--which suggests she died before Maximinus became emperor. That is the likely explanation for...
Right. Even more, they must have an idea of what to do with your coins. Your heirs will likely want to turn your collection into cash. If you...
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