The plague under Justinian was remarkable (see the good book "Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire" by William...
That is so true. A good face on a Byzantine facing bust AE is unusual, which is why I recently got this Byzantine anonymous class D follis:...
$269 on Amazon. :(
Here is a coin of the "Hephthalite" huns. The coin may be of the unfortunate Sasanian King Peroz (= Firoz, 457-483) after he was captured in...
Because all of her coins are "DIVA" she must have been dead by the time Maximinus became emperor. That made it harder for die engravers to know...
I think so too. I wrote this page on it: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ricix/ and selected my username from it. Here is a scare type of...
I recommend Arab-Byzantine Coins: An Introduction, with a Catalogue of the Dumbarton Oaks Collection (Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Collection...
Weights of provincials can be very erratic. This goes double for coins that are not silver and don't have precious-metal value anyway, so they...
@Severus Alexander , I really like the whole group. There is life after Roman and Greek coins! All of them are interesting. I guess I "need" a...
After getting a few quinarii I decided to learn about them. The results are on my web page: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/quinarius/ Here is one:...
I added some coins to my page on coins of Valentinian and later http://augustuscoins.com/Valentinian.html and reduced prices on all the other...
Here is a page of late Roman reverse types: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ricix/ and who issued them, with examples. Yours is type 39, somewhat...
@Tejas , that one is gorgeous!
Once I bought a gorgeous Hadrian sestertius with a good reverse type that I knew was somewhat tooled. I grew to hate it and sold it (being clear...
The reverse of the OP coin has "S C" very off-center. Banti & Simonetti, volume XI, pages 236-258 illustrates 80 examples from old sale catalogs....
Yes, if you have any interest in Byzantine coins. I have a large ancient-coin library and use Sear's Byzantine Coins and their Values a lot. If...
As we can tell from the large surviving number of ancient coins from the mid-third century and the die studies of Roman coins that have been done,...
Most coins of Aemilian were struck from worn dies. It is hard to find one with a good strike from relatively unworn dies. [ATTACH] 22-21 mm....
It does not have the characteristics of BD. It is just the lead component corroding and sometimes falling out of the coin.
If you want to learn more about metallurgy of ancient coins, fill your bookshelf with these: [ATTACH]
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