Here is an overstrike for sale. It is a large coin, 28 mm and 10.50 grams, with good reddish patina and good depth of strike: [ATTACH] At this...
Thank you, @Severus Alexander . I omitted that rare issue of Licinius. The Maxentius "QQ" issue is attributed to c. 310, which may still be the...
Roman emperors took vows (VOTA) promising to do something for the gods if the gods did something the emperor wanted. The emperor wanted a long...
@Caesar_Augustus , that is a wonderful first thread! I hope you don't think you must wait a year before you start another thread! Sometimes it...
I got mine from "Praetorian Numismatics" in 1997. It was an upgrade at the time and I have not managed to get a better one since then. My coin's...
Hey LateRomanBronzeGuy, that is a great example, far better than most and very hard to come by in that condition. No matter how much money a...
I did too (in 2013): [ATTACH] Faustina Sr. Struck c. 150 AD. 19-17 mm. AETERNITAS Sear II 4574. Sear does not list the CERES type as more...
I think the "21 mm" is a typo. It says 12.1 grams which is right for the 27 mm type and too heavy for a 21 mm coin. So, I think you found it. The...
I have added a few reference works on ancient coins to my page: http://augustuscoins.com/numislit.html and I reduced the prices on the (already...
Here is another one. @Sallent does not (yet) have them all! [ATTACH] Silver Antoninianus, Rome Mint, 22mm, 4.52 grams Obverse: IMP CAES M ANT...
Here is one that came today It is much like the OP coin: [ATTACH] Koinon Macedonia Bust of Alexander the Great, AΛEΞANΔPOV KOINON MA KEΔONΩN B...
This has been done with hundreds of coins. Their surfaces are "silvery" due to sliver. It is, of course, possible there are exceptions due to...
I don't think modern scholars believe coins were "tinned." Many chemical tests have proven there was "surface silvering." Tin was mined in England...
I think so. Before he died there were three co-rulers-- Carus, Carinus, and Numerian, so three Gs. After Carus died there were only two Gs.
I have been collecting the late Roman aureliani from the Tripolis mint for many years. http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Tripolis/ There are not many...
[ATTACH] Constantine deified 16 mm. 1.75 grams. 3:00 Struck 337-340 at Antioch mintmark: SMANTΓ no reverse legend RIC Antioch 37 For more about...
@Herberto cited my site and I will cite this page of it: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Cherson/RomanusIII.html#RIV "Sokolova attributes all the...
This may be a Christian cross (I think it is). If so, it is the first Christian cross on a Roman coin. [ATTACH] 20-19 mm. Struck 316 RIC Ticinum...
This Alexius I (1081-1118) really is this silvery, which is remarkable for a late billon aspron trachy. [ATTACH] 26-24 mm. 4.28 grams. Sear 1918...
In February I started a thread on how some eBay fakes are detected: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/how-we-detect-fakes.311907/ I mentioned...
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