if you soaked it for 90 minutes in acetone and it did not come off, it might not be artificial. Usually 10-15 minutes will dissolve these fake...
The abbreviations are collections...L stands for L(ondon) British Museum; V stands for V(ienna) and Ox. stands for Ox(ford) Ashmolean Museum.
not just Eusebius, but also directly according to letters written by Constantine and indirectly by many of his actions...for example, compare the...
Doesn't everyone? :)
I have an unofficial issue circa A.D. 320 that looks uniface, but may have just been weakly struck [ATTACH]
a $100 dollar coin today, similarly priced 20 years ago, would be about $65.
Arcadius A.D. 384- 388 18mm 2.2gm DN ARCADIVS P F AVG; pearl diademed, draped in imperial mantle, holding mappa and scepter (maybe). GLORIA...
from what I can see of the mintmark on the second coin it looks like SM[?]B. That means a possibility of three mints- Heraclea, Nicomedia or...
"The staurogram is encoded by Unicode in the Coptic block, at U+2CE8⳨Coptic Tau Rho, and as of Unicode 7.0 (2014) also in the Ancient Symbols...
what is in the left field is actually a Staurogram ⳨ (which means monogram of the cross). It is made by superimposing a Tau (T) on a Rho (P) and...
RIC is not wrong, it is just a snapshot of what was seen when it was written. Even then, it did not make claims that all existing examples had...
Your coin is RIC VII Rome 221. It is a scarce type, though I have seen several examples sold over the last few years. Here is a link to a post...
my first Roman coin was a denarius of Caracalla. I used a scanner to take a picture and scanned it upside down, so the light was going the wrong...
It means it is the fourth workshop from the Rome mint P = Prima (1) S = Secunda (2) T = Tertia (3) Q = Quarta (4)
There is also a variation that looks like a rocky nest from Rome, though rare. You should remember it, you took the picture. [ATTACH]
scratches do not mean damnatio memoriae and Vaballathus was never given this treatment anyway as it was reserved for people that had brought...
I don't think it is damnatio memoriae...it's more likely accidental damage
One reason might be that Constantine's half sister Constantia was married to Licinius. Shortly after this incident, Constantine even issued a rare...
Yes, I messaged the seller and explained why the lot had sold for so much...of course, if it had been I.D.'ed prior to listing, he would have...
there were at least two-- [ATTACH]
Separate names with a comma.
