That book goes to show how much there is to know about ancient coins, and, when you realize how much remains unknown, how deep and fascinating our...
Yes, that is a very good book, with many enlarged photographs and lots of information. It comes in two editions, a thick first one and a thinner...
Labor #2, slaying the Lernaean Hydra, can be seen on this type of Geta: [ATTACH] 28 mm. Struck at Hadrianopolis. AΛPIANOΠOΛITΩN BMC Thrace 119....
Coinage in the Roman World by Andrew Burnett is packed with information from one the world's top scholars (and, former Curator of the British...
I have put many Roman provincial coins on my page: http://augustuscoins.com/index.html From a different series, here is a super Licinius II:...
Almost four years ago I wrote a web site http://augustuscoins.com/ed/interesting/SECVRITAS.html on the meaning of SECVRITAS, a common term on...
Most definitely. Even today there are significant events about which we can not be confident we know what really happened. If there were a...
My thoughts as well. I am very happy Doug told me about the existence of this wonderful forum. Thanks, @dougsmit !
Here is one celebrating his Sarmatian victories (events of 175): [ATTACH] DE SARM in exergue. 20-18 mm. Struck Dec. 176-Autumn 177 TRP XXXI IMP...
Be careful if you find a nice one. The type has been popular enough to inspire excellent fakes, most of which are in better condition and have...
SNG France 4, Alexandrie I, Auguste-Trajan. 8 1/2" by 12" white dust jacket. 1319 photographed coins of Roman Alexandria, Egypt, in sylloge...
@Gary Waddingham, we would like to see the other side, when you figure out how to post it. That OP coin is a great coin! I have a tiny Samarian...
Here is a Eudoxia, wife of Arcadius, with the hand of God crowning her with a wreath. [ATTACH] 18 mm maximum. 2.32 grams. SALVS REI-PVBLICAE...
The OP mentioned Here is one of the usual, common, anonymous bronzes with that "orans" pose: [ATTACH] Byzantine "anonymous bronze" Class J...
Here is another example of Constantine's Hand of God coin: [ATTACH] DV CONSTANTINVS PT AVGG RIC Antioch 37 16 mm. Struck 337-340 after the death...
I am not an expert on Islamic coinage. However, I do have a book, Sylloge of Islamic Coins in the Ashmolean Museum, which has 123 pieces, all AE,...
That's because he is showing a Romulus, son of Maxentius. The coin names both.
I have been researching the OP Zeus Ammon coin and Metcalf's book on "The silver Coinage of Cappadocia" says it is not from Caesarea, contra...
Mine has an Epsilon, also "r4", but there are so many varieties that, in total, there are 25 for sale on vcoins as I write. [ATTACH] 20-19 mm....
Here is one from Roman Egypt: [ATTACH] Commodus, year 23 = 182/3 25-24 mm. Giessen volume 3, 2225. Sear 5913. Emmett 2568.
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