Actually S in this mintmark does not stand for Sexta, though it is the sixth workshop... it is just a coincidence. Here is a reply from another...
"All the prices and wages are listed in denarii communes, which were not actually silver denarii as we usually think of when discussing ancient...
Though Diocletian's “Edict of Maximum Prices” was issued almost 60 years after the rule of Gordian III, it lists prices for wine and beer Wine &...
This object is called a Dacian Draco...here's some info from another topic about this- "RIC V describes it as a “staff surmounted by head of ass”...
Arcadius A.D. 404-6 10mm 0.6gm DN ARCADI-VS PF AVG pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust. CONCOR-DIA AVGGG legend surrounding cross In...
here's a description Constantinopolis Commemorative A.D. 333-335 Obv. CONSTAN-TINOPOLIS laureate, helmeted, wearing imperial mantle, holding...
Sol is actually holding a whip. This also means that the RIC number 279 that Andres2 has for his coin is wrong. It is 255, though RIC only lists...
There is only a RIC 8, no RIC 8b. The B which you are talking about probably refers to the obverse bust type, which RIC lists as either B (head...
Vabalathus struck these coins, but recognized that Aurelian was senior, that is why the legend for Aurelian ends with AVG; while Vabalathus merely...
shield with side profile [ATTACH] commemorative with star [ATTACH] Silvered example [ATTACH] Shield with quadripartite division [ATTACH]...
Yes, sorry that I wasn't clear that in reference to the T-I break in the footnotes I meant "another" as in addition to N-T and I-N; rather than...
I don't think it is transitional, just inconsistent. The footnotes for 137 mention another break with CONSTANT-INOPOLIS. Below are two examples,...
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704 can be either bust type G or H. The coin in question is bust type G, while H is the one with imperial mantle.
The last symbol in your mintmark looks like an "S" but is actually ϛ (digamma); which is Greek for the sixth workshop. Everyone calls it an S,...
Yes, it is RIC VI Antioch 133b Dane has the RIC numbers for the GENIO coins here- http://www.catbikes.ch/coinstuff/coins-ric.htm
If you are referring to what looks like little dots, that is part of the beard.
The mintmark is SMKΓ•, gamma instead of T, as T is not a workshop for this issue. It also looks like a dot at the end, if so, it was struck A.D....
prices always vary...below is a budget example with a little ding on the reverse that I sold last month on eBay for $8.50, shipping included....
Here is the Dux Arabiae section of the Notitia Dignitatum in Munich which shows two Arabian ostriches [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
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