The IMP series has several mis-readings in the standard texts. I think that we can assume that obverse legends ending iMP and IMP I and...
The main COS II series follows from the COS I. Some seem to hail back to the style of the COS and COS I examples above. [IMG] [IMG] Reverse...
There are a whole range of COS II issues that have shortened elements that seem to match closer in style to the IMP II series than to the COS II...
If we look at the COS issues, there are a whols host of odd obverse legends, with various endings that are thought to precede the large COS II...
The picture is even more complicated than that. There are two eastern mints using "IMP CAE L SEPT SEV PERT AVG". These are differentiated by...
I had originally believed my coin to be a die match to the Barry Murphy example. This is simply wrong. The legend spacing is different. [IMG]...
I seem to be building another sub-theme, which is the FTR Galley coins from Rome. I am now up to 10. Someof the differences in the sereis are...
Here is a coin that is described as coming from the COS I issue. [IMG] Possibly the same engraver? Obv:– IMP CAE L SEP SE - V PERT AVG COS I,...
@Terence Cheesman - A fantastic looking coin. I keep seeing these and would love to have a single example just for comparison.
I haven't seen any evidence that backs up the move of the mints by the BM to Cappodicea and Antioch. So now we have moved a little further...
15 or so years.
Or 170 coins of Probus just from the mint of Lugdunum!
Not Alexandria.
Excellent. What if I tell you that the coin is official but that the obverse legend that you describe is not thought to exist? Is there anything...
I missed out on another example last month.
Whilst I have a general focus on the eastern issues of Septimius Severus, I try not to buy much of his later eastern issues from...
Is more than 500 coins of a single emperor obsessive? If so then count me in.
I thought it might be interesting to set an exercise for people in describing and attributing a coin. As part of the exercise I would prefer it is...
I think it is.... here is the BM example [IMG]
The obverse is from the mint of Tripolis. These are only known with a very limited set of reverses. That wouldn't be one of them.
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