Coins of some emperors are often not well struck. For example, mid third century coins are often struck from worn dies and the reverse dies are...
I won an excellent coin in the Pecumem auction as the only bidder and my limit was well above the minimum. I wonder if some potential bidders...
Here some advice about buying ancient coins: http://esty.ancients.info/numis/buying.html and some comments about auctions in general and eBay in...
Scholars are confident production of barbarous radiates stopped very shortly after the Gallic Empire was reconquered by Aurelian in 273. Why?...
In their catalogs beginning in 2004 the firm Freeman and Sear was offering argenteus pieces from an obviously substantial hoard. I do not know how...
Here is another Leo VI, AD 886-912, with a different Sear number, 1728, with a fancy throne: [ATTACH]
Here is a Magnus Maximus siliqua from Mediolanum (Milan). [ATTACH] [ATTACH] 17 mm. 1.50 grams. 12:00 die axis. VIRTVS ROMANORVM MDPS RIC...
I think the "Martin" hint gives it away, Doug.
I tried to go back to the original link in the first post and it had changed to a video about Japanese archery. Here is a link to the original:...
When you read Roman history to don't hear a lot about Roman archery. Of course, the Parthians are famed for archery and most Parthian coins have a...
Okay, if we are going to pick favorites, I pick 5, 2, and 9. I realize 1 is the "best" by far, but I am leaving that type out of the running.
AN, thanks for the reference to the article on "Coinage of the Nezak."
By the way, modern scholarship does not agree with old scholarship on which coins are "Erato." Coin counts showed the old Erato to be,...
TIF, alone a 42 mm coin looks huge, but your 48 mm piece dwarfs that one. A wonderful group!
Mithradates, that is a gorgeous coin from an interesting historical period. Coins 17 and 25 on this page http://esty.ancients.info/FILAVGG/ are...
I have an educational site on ancient imitations, including fourrees: http://esty.ancients.info/imit/ and here is another page:...
There are many "barbarous radiate" copies of Tetricus types. They range in size from the sizes of the originals (say, 18 mm or so) down to far...
How about four heads? [ATTACH] A very large 38 mm. Gordian III and Tranquillina at Seleucia ad Cadnumun, Cilicia. Tyche and Apollo on the reverse.
A old friend asked me to sell his remaining ancient coins. Among them were these three tokens which are not ancient but nevertheless old. I wonder...
I went to the site of CNG, http://cngcoins.com/Default.aspx clicked on "Research" and searched on "Romulus Maxentius" (to not get so many Romulus...
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