My best late Roman AE from this year is better than his best late Roman AE from this year! :happy: [He didn't buy any.] (You just have to look at...
It does not look "applied" to me. Anyway, I would not remove it. The coin is so worn few details remain and the highlighting helps.
In May I announced an educational site on "year 5" coins of Severus Alexander (222-235) at Alexandria, Egypt which are interesting for being...
I disagree. I have the Stannard article and it says "The mean weight of the gouged pieces in appendix 1 is 3.86 grams with a standard deviation of...
The gouges were supposed to lower the weight of overweight coins, that is, coins noticeably over the usual full-weight of about 3.95 grams. So,...
The "increase of $1 trillion" we are reading about is not the increase in the national debt over a decade, it is the increase more than it would...
Shaggy! [ATTACH] Constantine IV, 641-668 24-22 mm. Sear Byzantine 1207, "SCL" for a mint in Sicily (Syracuse).
A fake. Not even close to genuine. The metal is not right.
There are quite a few CT members with excellent collections of FEL TEMP REPARATIO types. Some collect "soldier spearing fallen horseman" or "hut",...
I searched vcoins for ancient coins offered above $100,000 and found two, including the OP aureus. The other expensive coin is so ugly I'd bet...
If you are compelled to try to complete sets, you can decide to define "set" differently. We see collectors on this list with one from each mint...
@Parthicus , your #1 is also my #1 from that list. With your username, the top has to be Parthian and facing busts are special. Very nice!
I like the victory behind the two emperors on the Gratian solidus. That type is beautiful for a late Roman coin.
Septimius Severus may have been personally defeated by the weather, but he claims (twice on this coin) to have defeated the Brits: [ATTACH]...
Aurelian usually comes as a radiate, either pre-reform or post reform. He also comes as a scarcer "denarius"--however almost always VICTORIA AVG....
Here is a coin that would be nice were it not for the flan flaw. [ATTACH] Constantius I, 293-305-306, struck c. 300-303 as Caesar. CONSTANTIVS NOB...
[ATTACH] Stater. Poseidonia in Lucania, Italy. 19 mm. 8.04 grams. Poseidon right brandishing trident Bull left. Look above the bull: ΠOΣE......
I agree with this approach. Decades ago we did not have so much selection and opportunity to buy coins. I occasionally got two late Roman bonzes...
Your coins says it is of Valens. Roman Silver Coins volume V is on late Roman silver and virtually complete, but nothing like it is in there--no...
Obviously it is a tough one. Congratulations on the completion. Now, on to the upgrades!
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