Yes. Did my elbow patches give me away?
When I heard that David Atherton was now in the Flavian game IN BRONZE (!) I quickly hit the BUY button on this one before he could snap it up....
Lovely Domitian reverse. If anyone wants to read a scholarly article (not mine) on the Ludi Saeculares coin series, PM me an email address. [ATTACH]
So I'm teaching a Classics course this semester. Here's the reading list: Apuleius. The Golden Ass. Trans. P. G. Walsh. Oxford: Oxford UP,...
That die engraver had a lot of fun with Nero’s hair. Great coin.
In the list I sent, you can see a couple without the dot. Like this:...
Constantine portrait styles vary widely. Plus, the lettering seems really good for a Barb. I think it’s authentic. I’ll let others weigh in.
Pretty much looks like all of these:...
Looks official to me. A simple Constantine the great votive from, I presume, Thessalonica. What makes you think it’s barbaric?
That’s a good piece of info, @Orfew. I don’t know how to answer that. Perhaps it’s merely a question of semantics. When does the...
Yes; I think once I complete my full "imperial" set, I might ring some variations, like using provincial to go all bronze.
Here's Sydenham’s chronology. [ATTACH]
For the record, I do support the notion that a collector may determine the criteria for a “Twelve Caesars” set. I do not believe there are “rules”...
Do you typically find multiple coins together, or is each coin typically separated a good deal from the others?
For a generous discussion of the coins of Constantine, @Victor_Clark has his Master's Thesis on the topic available online:...
A snippet from a book I just bought. Title: Coinage in the Roman world Authors Andrew Burnett, Daphne Nash Publisher Seaby, 1987 Original from...
This is a good point. But it's interesting to me to think about how the Romans themselves mythologized their past, inventing new ways of...
[ATTACH] I always understood plowing a boundary furrow for a new Roman settlement to be a way of sacralizing space; this is why priests typically...
As far as why all the variations on Constantinian coinage, one simple answer might be the fact that he has coins struck for him for over 30 years....
The coin with the standard over the serpent is the "Holy Grail" of Constantine LRBs. It is also very frequently faked. I think a genuine one in...
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