That was very kind of you. Thank you for the information about the weight. Very high, but not certainly too high.
I bought this massive as in 1988 at a Glendining's auction in London and took it to the BM. The Roman curator was out so Martin Price (The Greek...
Big coins are very impressive. Here is a large diameter (47 mm!) silver coin. [ATTACH] It is Samnid, possibly of Nuh bin Nasr, struck c. 365-387...
I agree that the OP type is one of the most attractive and artistic of Republican coins. If it is not well-centered important design elements can...
I added eight nice Roman and Roman provincial and Greek oriental coins to my sale site: http://augustuscoins.com/Valentinian.html Here are three:...
@DanL, the second (obverse) photo of yours is upside down. (The "M" is on the reverse and the two figures on the obverse.) The obverse shows...
That is a common Claudius as of the Minerva type. It is very commonly found in England and certainly not a coin that could push that lot up to $300.
Thank you all every much for initiating or contributing to this interesting thread. Which Roman coin types have the best letterforms? Here is a...
Here is a coin of the famous Claudius (AD 41-54) struck at Roman Alexandria in year 12 (51/2): [ATTACH] 26 mm. 10.04 grams. Emmett 80. A diobol....
The god Dionysos favored the panther, a big cat normally depicted with spots. Here is one on a mosaic in the Archaeological Museum of Pella:...
@Ed Snible, that's it! Thank you!
@John Anthony, the coin you posted has a "T" that look like a "T". One of the Stancomb coins looks very much like mine (not like a "T"), and the...
Slabs take up a lot of space. If the coins you have are worth a lot each and you have a limited number, fine. However, if you have hundreds or...
A while ago we had a good thread on helmets: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ancient-helmet-types.297306/ Of course, very many ancient coin...
Extremely rare denomination. "IA" means 10 to 1 in place of the usual 20 to 1 (parts copper to silver). [ATTACH] Tacitus, 275-276. The previous...
The Caracalla/radiate lion design also comes on an antoninianus: [ATTACH] 22 mm. Stuck 215 AD. ANTONINVS PIVS AVG GERM, radiate bust right PM TRP...
Dan Clark was a dealer who bought thousands of lousy Byzantine copper coins and sorted through them. He developed a classification scheme that...
Keep #1. The surface on #2 is not so pleasing.
We have had many good threads on the attractive and common AE FEL TEMP REPARATIO coins, including this one recently:...
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