I thought that it might be worth while trying to explain what difference the thunderbolt makes when compared to a wreath in this context. Each...
My mistake. Re-reading I can see my confusion.
I have to disagree with Bings attribution. The coin has R Wreath B in exe rather then Thunderbolt.
There are often cases where the emperor appears to replave a deity/god/personification on coins where we see emperor as ...... In these cases this...
Nothing special but I like the type. I didn't have one from Trier. Doug had illustrated a couple from Trier and Amiens and I have been keeping my...
I stumbled across another common Licinius from Trier but a cuirassed type. It was too cheap to walk away from. Obv:– IMP LICINIVS P F AVG,...
How about a Lugdunum? Obv:– IMP C AVRELIANVS AVG, Radiated cuirassed bust right Rev:– PACATOR ORBIS, Sol walking left, right hand raised, left...
I have a couple of Emesa - POMA (two different obverse dies, same reverse die) the second of which arrived this week. [IMG] [IMG] Alexandrian...
I did have a small collection of Cnut pennies in my English silver coinage collection before I shifted across to ancients. I sadly parted with...
Nice. All the FEL TEMPs are varieties are ones I don't have. Very nice group.
Two lovely coins there Randy and Doug's coin has a gorgeous portrait. This gets down to the guts of how/why we use RIC. If we look at this...
Come on folks. Who is going to take on Doug's challenge of naming (and illustrating) the range of Victory types?
Here is mine. Different dies. Septimius Severus denarius Obv:– IMP CAE L SEP SEV PERT AVG COS II, Laureate head right Rev:– VICT AVG, Victory...
I hear what you are saying Doug and broadly agree. I also think that this can go too far the other way where a letter or two different can turn...
I haven't seen anything that even attempts to make sense of them. There seem to be too few examples in the samples taken to build the references...
I spent a period actively collecting the output of Probus from Alexandria and reached the stage where I was left with searching for scarcer and...
Steve - Yours is an Apollo type rather than a Gorgon type.
Also the odd VSV denarius. Severina, denarius Obv:– SEVERINA AVG, Diademed and draped bust right on crescent Rev:– VENVS FELIX, Venus standing...
What about Lugdunum? Obv:– SEVERINA AVG, Diademed and draped bust right on crescent Rev:– CONCOR-D MILIT, Concordia seated left holding patera...
There were at least two ther examples from that second obverse die (with the flower in the hat) that were also removed.
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