How about this one? Do you recognize what it could have been? [ATTACH] It was issued at Alexandria (ALE) by Domitius Domitianus. The eagle is...
See Type 52 on the page about AE types from RIC IX: http://esty.ancients.info/ricix/ It likes the OP coin has a legend break -VS which belongs...
On this site about Christian types http://esty.ancients.info/Christian/ChristianSymbols.html the Helena and Theodora are in Table 2 near the...
The left one is Helena.
Here is mine. This thread has illustrated the profile severed head nicely (especially Carthago's piece and Doug's second piece). [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I always appreciate Doug's descriptions of his thought processes. Thanks for telling us about the show.
FEL TEMP REPARATIO is a very common late Roman legend, but less so on coins of Magnentius. Here is a "galley" type: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] 23 mm....
Focus--schmocus! Who needs to focus when there are so many attractive and interesting new things?
"Billion" is a number. "Billon" is the alloy we are discussing.
Omegaraptor, CoinTalk has hundreds of pages of discussion threads. Many mention beginning collecting and the cost of coins. I'd recommend going...
I have added a "type set" page http://esty.ancients.info/ricix/type7i.html on the AE coins of Procopius (AD 365-366) to my educational site on...
Theodosius II (402-450) is a late Roman emperor hard to come by in good shape. I have collected them for decades and am passing some along:...
It is gold over base metal--a fourree. Is this type always fourree?
Doug is right; it is Valentinian II. It is a cute type and inexpensive for him, Theodosius, and Arcadius. It is very rare for Gratian and it is...
Here is my Gallienus "zoo series" Pegasus: [ATTACH][ATTACH] GALLIENVS AVG SOLI CONS AVG 19 mm. 3.07 grams. RIC Sole reign 283K, Rome mint. Sear...
The amount of pay "each payday" depends, of course, on how frequently paydays occur. In this case, where pay was supposed to be 225 denarii per...
If that coin had been found in England, the reward would have been substantial. The Israeli "reward" is not likely to encourage finders to report...
Pman, your coins are spectacular. You may, or course, ignore my question, but I am wondering if you travel a lot to usually buy coins "live", or...
AJ, your excellent coins are made even better by your interesting write-ups. Thanks for showing us the Philip II, but also for writing it up so well.
He has two such books, covering neighboring time periods. The first, published by Seaby and covering 63-49 BC, has life-sized photos which are not...
Separate names with a comma.
