It is a nice coin, but that does not look like a prow to me. Most prows have rams which project forward from the bottom as far or further than the...
[ATTACH] Valentinian II, 375-392 AE2. GLORIA ROMANORVM Emperor in galley left, Victory at helm. 378-388 22 mm. 4:00. 4.75 grams RIC Antioch...
I have abut 30 Roman provincial coins for sale on this page: http://augustusmath.hypermart.net/RomanProvincial.html Today I put up new pictures...
I believe many ancient-coin collectors do not know what coins they want are worth (in spite of being able to look them up in many places on the...
I concur. It's a fake.
I save pedigrees, at least back to the dealer, but these three came from a collector from whom I was unable to get any records at all.
Late Roman AE was very commonly imitated in the Constantinian era. However, imitations of Valentinian through Honorius are not so commonly...
If you want to learn about late Roman AE, which I think is a great area to collect, here is an educational site: http://esty.ancients.info/ricix/...
Here's my Leo I/lion looking back: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] DN LEO PF AVG CON mintmark. 12 mm. RIC X 674, page 293, plate 26 The lion looks to be...
Not Tificus, rather Tifia.
TIF, the OP is a great coin, and apparently at a great price. Congratulations!
Yes, it occurs mostly in the 4th C. Then again, you can see it on Marc Antony/Octavian denarii. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] It didn't turn out the way...
One way to show that a ruler was junior was to depict him with an unbroken legend and a small head: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Constantine II, 317-337-340...
If all you want is an ID number, on-line sources can do that. But books like BMC and RIC actually have exposition that is interesting and books...
There are two editions of Jenkins, Ancient Greek Coins. In contrast to every other book with two editions I can think of, the first is far...
The original author about this gouging practice agrees with Carausius and not what I wrote above. Stannard's article "The adjustment al marco of...
Adjusting them individually is the "al pezzo" (by the piece) method. That's what Doug said. The scoops (gouges) on Republican coins are not "al...
My friend DC, now nearly 90 years old, collected early Christian types from the fourth C. AD. He went to shows decades ago when hoard coins were...
I second the recommendation of chrsmat71 of John Anthony's "Collecting Greek Coins" book, even if you intend to collect Roman coins. Sayles volume...
In case you were wondering, the illustrated example 184/1a in Crawford is quite clear that it really is a butterfly.
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