Last month I spent a few days re-organizing and imaging some of my Romans, and found this coin, one of the oldest residents of my collection:...
Galerius was 100% a legitimate emperor; he was the architect of the nomination of Maximinus II and Severus II as Caesares, which caused the entire...
Now that us seriously cool! The style and legends are good though; makes me wonder if this is just an R5 official commemorative? 11mm is about...
Beautiful Kushans! Someday I will have the willpower to save up for a nice early Kushan dinar. In the meantime Yuezhi / Kushan "Heraios" obol...
[IMG] Pergamon was the home to one of the larger and more important temples to Asklepios, where the sick would come for healing. I have a few...
I'm already spread too thin to really attempt a set, but I do have the one [ATTACH] Nothing special, but it was inexpensive. Who can resist one...
Circling back to the original question a bit, coinage appears to have been something of an "Eureka!" moment for humanity. There's plentiful...
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Not many come close to Caracalla in terms of sheer malice and bloodlust, IMO. [ATTACH] - Framed his stepfather for aspiring to the throne so he...
Faustina II (+ Commodus and Antoninus) [ATTACH] Lucius Verus [ATTACH] Lucilla [ATTACH] Commodus (due for an upgrade, but not many nice ones...
Nice coins! I have been building my collection in silver denarii where possible, but to be honest I would probably choose sestertii if I had to do...
Superb coins! My Maximus Sestertius isn't much, but it was dirt cheap! [ATTACH] I do someday hope to score a nice Maximus denarius, along with...
Nice examples! Mine sport somewhat older portraits which I imagine might have been closer to what they actually looked like. Valerian II...
@Pellinore this is sadly uncharted territory within Indian numismatics. Maheshwari's Imitations in Continuity is the only book that gives more...
Had a marathon imaging and measuring session with my Indo-Sassanian coins yesterday, and had to share this one! Indo-Sassanian AR Damma Early...
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Barbarous coins can give us some interesting things, as Doug pointed out. Of particular interest, at least to me: - All coins of Tetricus II as...
Another early passion was the anepigraphic "cross in wreath" coins of Theodosius II. They are less common, but barbs exist of those too [ATTACH]...
Barbarous coins are also fun to collect from the Constantine period and beyond Constantine? [ATTACH] Magnentius [ATTACH] Some barbarous...
Excepting Claudius II, barbarous coins of the central emperors are much less common than of the Tetricii. One of my favorite examples is this...
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