Very nice coins. My favorite is the one with a lot of mileage. Forgive me for my ignorance, but who's Michael Kelly? Is he the same guy well known...
I didn't have a big bronze of Maximinus Thrax in my collection."Big bronze"is a particularly appropriate expression for this emperor. The Roman...
I found the explanation. Here is the picture of your die-cutter during his lunch break... [ATTACH]
Very nice discoveries and surprises. Here is an undescribed lot I purchased a month ago. Still soaking in DW and half of them haven't been...
I just finished a very interesting paper about the second relief shown in the OP. The 2 characters embracing each other have been identified...
The Nicomedia mint was operating with only one officinae during the early byzantine period. It finally closed in 627 AD. You're absolutely...
"X IIΓ dans le champ (=12,5 deniers)" is the only explanation I found on nummus-bible-database.com. The translation is "X IIΓ in field (=12,5...
I'm upgrading my collection, so some coins need a new home. Very cheap and neat coins....
The city Nicomedia was founded in 284 BC as the capital of the Hellenistic Kingdom of Bithynia; the King Nicomedes I gave his name to the place....
Different coins with this reverse exist. Trebonianus Gallus, Volusian, Aemilian and Valerian I used it. I read that this reverse type was an...
A classical. I almost got caught. [ATTACH]
Neat coin (and avatar) @Valentinian . Someone should start a thread on "Helmeted coins" one day. Here is my favorite one; I especially like the...
The only thing sad when you're a supporter is you don't see the adds anymore on the top of the page. I miss these "pretty ukrainian girls looking...
That's what I call a pedigree! And I can't stop imagining all the Flavian's fanatics drooling while admiring your coin...
Darkness doesn't exist: it's only the absence of light. There is no cold: only absence of heat. Holes don't exist: they are only absence of...
Nice coins everyone. @Mat , is yours really 39 mm?
Fantastic coin! Is it Philip I on the obverse?
Did you ever have a coin's crush ? The heart that beats fast, the ideas that get confused and that make say anything, the legs that waver, the...
Wonderful selection. You certainly have great taste sir! I'm sure any members of CT would enjoy having one of these coins in their collection.
Exactly.You know your fish my friend. My wife was so pride of her catch.Talking about Rhode Island, we took our summer vacations 4 years in a row...
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