Of course, it's more of a circumstantial evidence than definite proof (if you accept it as a contemporary fourree rather than a modern fantasy...
There was an attempted auction of this coin by Gorny & Mosch (Auction 228, 03/09/15) which proved unsuccessful with an estimate of 1500EUR. I used...
This one here is a conspicuously important piece. While still a subaeratus piece, the Antoniniani of Alexander are very rare (only 2 other...
There are 15 specs recorded in RIC Temp - http://www.ric.mom.fr/en/coin/4484 - so depending on how you define rarity you might make a guess. I'd...
Most likely, as far as RIC V-1 goes, your coin is a variant of RIC 111.
Steve your coin is BNC p.408 and RIC Temp #4484 and a very nice example as such :)
Despite his very short reign, Florian issued a great deal of coins. This one is of particular interest because of a little feature that might...
The variety of designs of the coins minted in the German States is quite remarkable. Also the quality of the dies and billon title.
Wonderful coin, Steve. But I suspect that it wasn't a bargain :)
Medieval and post-medieval coins are quite interesting. Here is an interesting early 17th Cent. (thus, a bit later than most pictured here) from a...
The Trier mint has such a distinctive portrait style. Here is another interesting Mars, this time just the bust.[ATTACH]
At a second look it's more likely Constantine II, I think the obverse legend is CONSTANTINVS IVN NOB C. It can't be a regular issue because...
It's a mule. A Caesar obverse - most likely Constantius II as Caesar with an AVGG reverse. Difficult to judge by the pics but it might also be a...
I'm glad my challenge sparked such interesting replies. As I see it, many collectors consider battered rare coins as a cheap way to fill a gap in...
Coin is in really bad shape, probably went through some extensive and not so healthy cleaning process, but is an interesting and scarce type:...
The coin is of a German coin dealer but other than that it's impossible to establish provenance. Also, what made me consider this hypothesis is...
Quinarii in the 3rd century are quite under-represented in collections. There are however silver quinarii known for Alexander as Augustus, Orbiana...
This is a very intriguing piece for the following reasons: it's a limes edition of an Alexander as Caesar (and all his emissions as Caesar are...
Thank you for adding these. It seems there are more of them out there than I thought :)
This is spec. 92.3 from mr. Esty's article, the only Tripolis minted coin from the selection that was studied. According to the results, the...
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