A coin collector might interpret "beautiful" as requiring high grade. High grade is nice, but many coins can be very attractive without it....
I highly recommend the books of John Julius Norwich on the Byzantine rulers. Byzantium is in three volumes, or it comes condensed into one. Most...
It's both. Of course, it is the usual SPQR abbreviation. However, it is, when on coins of Gallienus and Claudius II, only in exergue and...
That's a nice (for type :)) tetarteron. The name of the emperor is usual clear on Roman coins and less so on late Byzantine coins. However,...
In the third century Prior to Gallienus Roman imperial coins did not have mintmarks identifying the mint. We can distinguish eastern mint coins of...
Here is a nice anonymous follis of Class D: [ATTACH] Sear 1836. 30-26 mm. 12.38 grams Attributed to Constantine X, 1059-1067. Most of these are...
The OP coin is an ancient imitation of a type of Magnentius (350-353). The reverse type is FELICITAS REIPVBLICE, emperor standing left holding...
According to this article https://www.coinsweekly.com/en/News/Leu-Numismatik-AG-Robbed-on-Christmas-Eve/4?&id=5819 526 lots of ancient coins...
I have seen fake Roman Republican denarii with excellent details and convincing surfaces but square or filed edges. The third and fourth photos of...
The second book I got is this one: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] I don't collect English coins, but I love reference works. This one is...
I wanted, and got, coin books for Christmas. Here is one spectacular book bought from Charles Davis (of vcoins). Portraits: 500 years of Roman...
I added some coins to my site: http://augustuscoins.com/index.html including a scarce early Christian chi-rho (on the Constantinian page) and...
Here is an old thought about coin collecting with a grain of truth. "What is the best way to make a small fortune in coins? "Start with a large...
There is! Keep your stories coming!
I have an auction sale catalog, M&M GMBH 44 (25 Nov. 2016), which offered 74 lots of individual coins of Lucilla. Most are not high grade, but...
I love the original post for its "WHY?" questions and answers. I think they are just right and many of us would buy those coin types for the same...
Three years ago we had a thread on Santa Claus look-alikes: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/santa-claus.272165/ Surely we have some new coins...
Here is one of the earliest Republican coins, Crawford 17/1a, dated to 273-270 BC: [ATTACH] 19-18 mm, 6.02 grams. Litra. Helmeted head of...
I wrote the OP page on anonymous folles: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ByzAnon/ but I didn't have a high-grade Class A2 example until this one...
Maybe you should not post all of them at once, but I'd love to see a sample (and I don't think I am the only one).
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