I recently bought this small Greek AE. I don't collect Greek AE but it was cute so I bought it anyway: [ATTACH] 10-9 mm. Small! 1.10 grams....
Most people no longer want paper copies of sale catalogs. I, myself, have given away many. But, there are some I want and if you have them and...
No. They are common in England. They do not sell well enough for a lot of them to have been brought across the Atlantic, but many are over there,...
Here is my site on these "GGG" coins: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/usurpers/Usurpers.html
Follis is the new denomination of the reform. There cannot be a "prereform follis". It is a follis from Carthage.
In the lower right the "Julia or Zenobia" is wrong. It is a coin of Carthage.
The photos are hard to see, but the ones I can see are identified correctly [EDIT: the lower right is from Carthage (not "Julia or Zenobia"),...
[ATTACH] Augustus, 27 BC - 14 AD. denarius. 18 mm. 3.76 grams. CAESAR AVGVSTVS DIVI F PATER PATRIAE, his laureate head right CAESARES below,...
Just you wait. You'll be back. Yes, that is an excellent one, but the one you are upgrading has an excellent type for a Herculean emperor, plus...
As in the OP, here is one of those so-called "star of Bethlehem" coins: [ATTACH] 20-19 mm. 7.70 grams. Head of Zeus right ram leaping right,...
I agree with others who say not to try to clean it. It is fine the way it is. Any surface adhesions just make it look old--which it is.
The votes on this thread are a good example of why one can't always trust polls. Some responders "mess with you". There are probably more jokers...
A search of vcoins under "Aretas IV" turns up some examples that good, but genuine, for about $10 (and that is retail pricing).
It is a Nabatean type (the reverse is two cornucopiae, crossed) of Aretas IV. In spite of the fact they are inexpensive if genuine, this one...
[ATTACH] SOLD Shekel of Tyre. Possibly struck in the 20s AD. 24-22 mm. 13.82 grams. Shekels of Tyre were dated using an era beginning in 126 BC....
The answer is yes, from the Aquileia mint, but they are very rare. I collected early Christian symbols on Roman coins for over thirty years before...
I offer three remarkably nice late Roman SALVS REIPVBLICAE AE4s. Please compare the prices with elsewhere. Mostly coins with this...
Here is another Severus II quarter-follis, this one with the short obverse legend: [ATTACH] SEVERVS NOB C RIC Siscia, 171a, "R" (less so now)...
If you try to get a set of no-mintmark London-mint emperors, Severus II is hard to find. [ATTACH] 28 mm. 9.80grams. This one has NOBILISSIMVS...
I have collected late Roman AE for decades. I just bought three coins of 388-392 and saw they had a detail described in a different way. Here is...
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