@Curtisimo , they are wonderful coins and their writeups are even better. You don't just own coins, you know them well and have researched them....
I edited my previous post so that it says "Commodus" and is now correct. Why are so many very worn coins offered by one seller? It is possible...
As has been often said on this forum, some images enough to be sure coin is fake, but images are not enough to be certain a coin is genuine....
How often will you update this sheet? It will be nice to know which cities have already been posted.
That OP coin of "Nepotian" is certainly a fake. No doubt at all. Also, if it were genuine it would have gone for five or ten times than much....
As @Orange Julius said, it refers to the orientation of the reverse when the obverse is upright. Hold the coin in your left hand with index finger...
That is a really special coin. The post-abdication issues for Maximian help illustrate his fascinating attempt to return to power. You quoted...
Diocletian (284-305) reformed the coinage c. 293-4 by introducing some new denominations, including the "follis" (possibly known as a "nummis" in...
This Forum site a very good page with monograms and the emperors who used them: http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=monogram...
Here is my coin of Hierapolis Syria with Atargatis: [ATTACH] Philip II, 244-249. 28 mm. 15.73 grams. AVTOK K M IOYΛI ΦIΛIΠΠOC CEB Autocrater...
I think we have determined that if a portrait of a member of the first tetrarchy shows curls in the beard, it is Constantius I. We cannot say that...
That type is quite rare. Most with that design say FEL KART, and even those are not common. Failmezger lists AVCTA KART as rare for the tetrarchs...
You will learn that "higher grade" often means "much higher price." This fact is very significant for the very most desirable top coins. For many...
Theme: Wild beard. [ATTACH] Parthian King Mithradates II, 123-88 BC. Drachm. 18 mm. 4.20 grams. Sellwood 28.7 from the mint of Rhagae. Shore...
Theme: CELTIBERIANS [ATTACH] AE25-24. Spain. Bolskan/Osca. Struck second half of second century BC. SNG BM2 Spain 734-737. Calico 175-181. SNG...
That is an interesting question. I have coins of Constantius that do not have curls in the beard from London, Trier, Lyons, Ticinum, Rome,...
Some collectors think the tetrarchs look a lot alike, and sometimes that is true. But, sometimes they can be easily distinguished. Can you tell...
Even if you believe in Class A3 as distinct, which I do not, they are not usually identified as this big. Coins this big have, I think, always...
@KParsons , I looked at my six A2 coins and could not be confident any were overstruck, much less actually identify an undertype. I hope someone...
The fire-altar side is usually the reverse and would, therefore, be struck with the pile die. So, I wonder if you meant to say "the anvil die...
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