The previous posts have told the story. [ATTACH] 19 mm. Domitian. Struck AD 73. The reverse has an elegance from its simplicity and lack of...
Hey @Blake Davis , that is a great quote! I will put it on my site and thank you. It is one of those connections to history that make coins so...
Cilicia is that coastal part of Turkey at the northeast end of the Mediterranean Sea. Prior to Alexander the Great it was under the control of...
Here is a travel type that does not fit into the "ADVENTVS" or "PROFECTIO" categories discussed here recently. [ATTACH] Welcome to Egypt....
The weights of cast coins tend to be far more variable than the weights of struck coins. There is no way to prepare their flans to the right...
Welcome, John! This forum is very friendly and we often recommend web sites written by collectors who have attempted to answer questions that new...
I have just posted an educational web site on ADVENTVS types: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/PROFECTIO/ADVENTVS.htm ADVENTVS means "arrival" and...
A member of the CoinForgeryDiscussionList https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/CoinForgeryDiscussionList/info?yguid=116957790 lamented that...
@Black Friar , your example of the first-year Justin II is much nicer than mine: [ATTACH] 33 mm. 19.35 grams. Justin II (565-578) Sear 378....
It is published by Spink. When I had difficulty finding volume II I wrote them and they had it.
Here is an Arab-Sasanian coin of Ubei Dalliah Ibn Zaid (55-67 AH) [ATTACH] 33 mm. 4.16 grams. 3:00 die axis. Struck year 61 = 680/681 AD,...
There is a two-volume work that does exactly this for Greek coins. Testimonia Numaria by John Melville Jones has "Texts and Translations" in...
I just got an impressive half-follis of Justinian. The story begins with the coin reform of 538. In year 12 (AD 538/9) of Byzantine emperor...
@ancientcoinguru showed a book by Harl. I say this about it on my web page: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/numis/learnmore.html " Many collectors...
@Charles1997 , the OP coin looks very nice. You might have spurred some of us to go looking for it and bid against you!
@Aleph , your collection is outstanding. I put a link (the first link!) to it on the "references" page:...
I just added Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands, unter leitung von F. Imhoof-Blumer to my ancient-coin-book site:...
I have a site on the quadrans and semis denominations: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/quadrans/ which I have announced here before in a thread where...
You can get a "zoo" of interesting animals and mythological creatures on coins of Gallienus (Roman emperor 253-268). [ATTACH] Who doesn't like a...
Many collectors and dealers put price information on flips in code. The most famous code is REPUBLICAN 0123456789 because it has 10 letters for...
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