Maybe we need a new column in the list of cities posted. We have our CT list:...
Maximinus Thrax, Roman emperor 235-238, didn't issue many different types. The most desirable type among his denarii is the VOTIS type: [ATTACH]...
I added Greek coins to my Greek page: http://augustuscoins.com/Greek.html I reduced prices on almost all the tetrarchal (Diocletian and later)...
Here is a coin of Tarsos in Cilicia: [ATTACH] 22-19 mm. 10.81 grams. Facing lady (like Arethus on coins of Kimon, Syracuse)/Ares in Attic helmet...
Late Roman copper coins usually have mintmarks that abbreviate the name of the mint. Some are clear abbreviations such as "LVG" for LVGdunum (=...
In the books brought to the screen in Game of Thrones, Tyrion Lannister has his nose cut off. The event in the book may have been inspired by...
The "die box" theory of minting has the obverse die firmly mounted in an anvil and the reverse dies hand held (with tongs). When the mint workers...
"Genius" is a word with a modern meaning which is not the ancient Roman meaning, which is more like "spirit". Many Roman coins depict the "GENIVS"...
I have been adding coins to my site: http://augustuscoins.com/index.html Some are quite remarkable, including a very nice Johannes AE4, a very...
Arab-Byzantine: [ATTACH] Struck at Tiberias, Jund of Jordan, c. 660-680 [According to Foss] 23 mm. 4.35 grams. Foss 81. SICA 587-591. From 11:00,...
It sounds like Florida got off far easier than where @TIF lives. I am interested in updates from @TIF.
Okay. I don't find this reverse with "COS I" in RIC or in BMC. So, yours is not in RIC or BMC either. It seems we have variants of published types.
This coin is pretty similar to a denarius of Emesa: IMP CAE L SEP SEV PERT AVG COS II, head right, laureate SAECVLI FELICIT around moon and seven...
I don't have many Sasanian coins, but you can never have too many reference works. From Charles Davis I recently bought the two-volume series...
When you study abroad there will be academics (whatever you are supposed to be studying) and lot of other, cultural, things. As a professor, I...
A "double strike" is not the same as an "overstrike". Overstrike refers to a new type struck on a flan that was a coin of an older type. We had a...
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Fascinating. I recommend the wikipedia story to the rest of you. Medusa turned men to stone and the bronze was erected facing other famous...
@IdesOfMarch01, who is the sculptor and what are his dates?
Thanks for the reminder. I edited it. It is there now.
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