Numerian and Carinus have a type, unique to the Alexandrian series, honoring a specific legion, Legion II, Traiana. [ATTACH] 19 mm. Numerian....
[ATTACH] Mine has Nilus reclining. LIH = year 18, 133/4. 32 mm. Bought in 1980 in a Minneapolis US-coin store that had some ancients. Emmett...
I've been collecting ancient for many years. When I began I liked late Roman copper because it was relatively inexpensive. I got my first SACRA...
It lists 5 of Mogadishu, 6 of the Sultans of Kilwa, and 2 of the Sultans of Zanzibar, without photos.
I will write only about the upper right coin, which is an "obvious" fake. First of all, it is supposed to be silver--high-quality silver. If you...
If you were asking about "Islamic Coins and Their Values, volume 1" I can say that the subtitle is "The Mediaeval Period" and the preface says it...
I own two volumes in the Ashmolean Museum series, volumes 1 and 9, so there will be at least 9 volumes. #1 is :The Pre-Reform Coinage of the Early...
Nathan Elkins is a well-known spokesperson for the anti-collecting community. His arguments are full of holes. "Sometimes". A straw man...
That is a very nicely argued post. However, almost every paragraph needs a reality check. Ancient coins have value. If local governments won't...
Procopius is a scarce emperor. He used to be rarer, but the fall of the Iron Curtain led to a flood of late Roman coins from the Balkans that the...
Hadrian's "travel series" is well-known and I want to consider travel coins that are not in his travel series. PROFECTIO is an uncommon type...
I just rewrote my pages for beginners to address this problem. http://augustuscoins.com/ed/numis/ Page 2 now begins with a discussion that may...
The doubt about authenticity is probably greater in the US than in Europe. In England, everyone knows they are found in the ground and big hoards...
I have not added anything for sale in a while, so I spent my morning making something available. I offer some $5-$15 coins. I posted seven new...
"Billon" is a vague term. In antiquity, silver was worth on the order of 100 times as much as copper, so even 1% silver makes the intrinsic value...
Here is one way. Three images are in play, the obverse, the reverse, and a blank image. Create a large blank image (maybe just white) to...
Victor, that is a really nice Crispus page with many good examples. If someone wants to see what is possible when collecting Crispus AE3s, that...
I think the OP folles are genuine and without bronze disease. (There are two "Samaria obols" with disease.) Not all green cover eats into the...
I don't think this price will last long. I figure it's a typo: [ATTACH]
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