it seems the last two letters in the mintmark are KA, so SMKA for Cyzicus.
it looks like it Yes, sometimes dies were reworked.
good riddance to him. he slabbed coins in his basement under the name National Numismatic Certification...trying to con people into believing that...
a couple of questions raised here (which was first Imperial or provincial and camel humps) are talked about in Numismatic Chronicle 2015 The...
here's your first coin with a CNG description [ATTACH] SYRIA, Coele-Syria. Damascus. Philip II. As Caesar, AD 244-247. Æ (26mm, 11.43 g, 12h)....
here are some more examples and the prices they sold for. $35.00 [ATTACH] $75.00 [ATTACH] $85.00 [ATTACH] $86.00 [ATTACH] $110.00...
here's a similar example from a different year (unless yours is also LE...hard to tell from the picture) that sold for $62 Antoninus Pius BI...
I've got a few nicer ones [ATTACH] Gallienus A.D. 259- 260 AR Antoninianus 20x21mm 3.7gm IMP GALLIENVS P AVG; radiate and cuirassed bust...
I sold this nice example to an expat in Saudi Arabia [ATTACH] Trajan A.D. 103-111 Æ As 25x26mm 9.3gm IMP CAES NERVAE TRAIANO AVG GER DAC...
from an older post -- The GENIO type is a common reverse and was issued by the Tetrarchic emperors for over a decade, but the seemingly peaceful...
Carausius was appointed commander of a fleet in the English Channel to defeat the Frank and Saxon pirates; which he did. However, he apparently...
I quickly looked in Barnes Constantine : Dynasty, Religion and Power in the Later Roman Empire and found several references. "The building and...
Acetone doesn't hurt the coin or surfaces. People used to lacquer coins and I have used acetone often to remove it.
I remember reading in at least one book about Constantine stripping pagan temples of their wealth...maybe Timothy Barnes.
it's R-F across the fields, from Rome. The mintmark is R star ?, with ? being a possibility of either P,S, T, or Q workshops.
this might be a case of the engraver forgetting to reverse Pax, though the legend was done properly. [ATTACH]
NCGS is/was a scammer slabbing out of his basement/ garage. I don't know if he is still active.
Yes, indeed. I believe the same way...it's a betrayal.
have you seen this yet? Alföldi, Andreas. "A Festival of Isis in Rome under the Christian Emperors of the IVth Century"
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