Here is a short web page on Geta's portraits: http://esty.ancients.info/Geta/ It is interesting that his name changed after his first issue from...
[ATTACH] Here is another "S R" example of the extremely common VRBS ROMA type. This one is from officina gamma. Coins may be "rare" or "very rare"...
Maybe, in general, people could post images of less than 100kb as opposed to 9 mb. With 35kb (less than 1/200 the bytes) one can usually get an...
Doug's question about when the meaning of "SECVRITAS" changed led me to make the site more thorough and informative with more coin photos and more...
That is an excellent example. Congratulations. For a bit more information on the type, see http://esty.ancients.info/CON/CONSTANTINOPOLIS.html
I wrote a short web page about Roman imperial coins with legend including SECVRITAS, which has an obvious modern meaning which is not quite the...
Yes, it is my coin.
I added several more "unique" types to the page: http://esty.ancients.info/unique/unique.html Click on the link at the top of the page to go...
I just posted a web page on the only coin type of Seuthes III who was an obscure King of Thrace at the time of Alexander the Great....
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Sear 311. Crawford 384. Here is one with control mark Crawford 120, plate LXVII, which he illustrates but does not name. It...
I am waiting for a camp-gate collector to admit he cares about the difference between a gate with 6 layers of stones and a gate with 7 layers of...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] The countermarks were struck by the same people who minted the type, only a bit later. Nina Frolova, in "On the monetary...
I just added five "unique" reverse types to my site: http://esty.ancients.info/unique/unique.html See if you can recognize them.
Carus at Roman Alexandria. His apotheosis--his raising to godlike stature = CONSECRATIO in Roman imperial coins.
I am writing an educational site on reverse types that were issued by only one Roman emperor. Just by looking at the reverse you can know who...
Thank you for showing us some (all?) of what you won. They certainly are unusual!
[ATTACH][ATTACH] Doug's Aurelian that inspired this thread is wonderful. Often we like good facial features on the portrait, but long ago I bought...
In the old days coin firms scaled back operations in the summer. There are so many other things for collectors to do in the summer (mowing the...
In 1996 I wrote a "Guest Commentary" for Coin World in which I made a comparison between collecting US coins and collecting ancient coins. Today I...
Antoninus Pius, AD 138-161. 26 mm. 10.97 grams. as. MVNIFICENTIA AVG which refers to the spirit of imperial generosity for giving games. It is...
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