Maybe overpriced, it's all opinion. For you to compare the price you paid for your coin versus this one for sale does not have much bearing if...
Actually I was completely wrong in my initial thoughts on that topic. If I had bothered to look in some references, I would have seen examples --...
Here is an altered coin of Decentius from Lyon. [ATTACH] Not surprisingly, since Magnentius and Decentius lost, the bust and name is mostly...
Tacitus (who wrote Germania in the first century A.D.) said that the Germanic tribes, “value gold and silver for their use in commerce, and are...
Here is a recent auction win that I think is pretty interesting. It is an unofficial FEL TEMP overstruck on a posthumous issue of Constantine I....
The second coin, of Gordian, has to be a fake because of the reverse IVNO REGINA; as Emperors never used this, except for Claudius II (RIC V...
his name was Titus Flavius Vespasianus
they were minted for about 10 years. I have a page about these coins-- http://www.constantinethegreatcoins.com/comm/
VRBS ROMA coins also have a similar bust, lacking the spear over shoulder and non laureate helmet; but I am partial to Constantinopolis coins, so...
We don't know the actual name...follis is old school, newer trend is nummus. H is not a possibility for your workshop. Siscia only used 5...
It looks like the last 2 letters of the mintmark are TS; which would have to be Thessalonica...like SMTS. This is not in RIC for Julian II, though...
[ATTACH] Maximianus A.D. 297- 298 30x31mm 9.9gm IMP MAXIMIANVS P F AVG; laureate head right. FELIX ADVENT AVGG NN; Africa standing left,...
Deciding on whether a coin is official or unofficial is sometimes arbitrary and often based on a "gut" feeling. Pierre Bastien wrote that some of...
I believe it is Dionysos pouring wine out of a jug, instead of a patera.
It's a Julian II FEL TEMP REPARATIO horseman. Your picture is too blurry for me to be sure of the mint.
It will be tough to near impossible to ID. I seem to be able to make out that the bust is helmeted and it looks like it has an imperial mantle,...
can you post a picture of the other side?
The reason that most unofficial coinage was struck was due to monetary reforms. Another reason was that after the defeat of a rival, any coinage...
I update it as I get coins. Besides adding a few VLPP's, I also recently added this Julian II. [ATTACH]
Below is a typical (for the bust type) example of a Constantine I with VICTORIAE LAETAE PRINC PERP reverse from Siscia [ATTACH] and here are...
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