At one point, I was buying arrow and spear heads when I could find them cheaply... but I could never find much information to attribute them to...
I love those instances of ancient personality that sometimes come out in coins. Great coin! Heres' a fun mint mark on a new-ish coin... an...
Not quite Todo but Toto. [MEDIA]
Here's one with everyone's favorite space man Elagabalus and a celestial reverse! [ATTACH] TO THE MOOOOOOOOOOON! To anyone having a hard time...
Another great app for coin photography is Eraser. If you need to clip out coins from a distracting background and need a transparent or black or...
Reverse is: VOT XX MVLT XXX You may be able to learn more looking into this spreadsheet: http://www.catbikes.ch/coinstuff/votx.xls
A little rough and worn on the obverse but here's mine: [ATTACH]
Maybe like this one... You can find a more exact match if you page down to Antioch here: http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/ric/philip_II/t.html [ATTACH]
I think it's a Philip II tetradrachm of Antioch. It's hard to tell though.
While this one has some grime and a weak reverse... it shows that some really early joint reign Gallienus coins can have silver almost as nice as...
Mine isn't as nice as @Cucumbor 's beautiful coin but shows that they were getting pretty debased by this time. You can see a bit of the porosity...
[ATTACH] Gallienus RIC 652 PAX FVNDATA = Peace Founded... (I have wondered what peace was founded in 265. It seems everything was falling apart...
Lots of educational value! If your looking for cash... you won’t find much here, maybe $5 or so if you’re lucky. Give it to someone, maybe a kid,...
Hadrian RIC 345 [ATTACH]
Looks to me to be one of the following: SMHS = Heraclea SMKS = Cyzicus SMNS = Nicomedia I’m not sure if they all had officina “S” in operation....
Great interpretation! I agree, I see three bridges with the center being a large arched one and two smaller bridges on the left and right. I’d...
There are lots of different answers to that question. Another answer is 476 ad with the fall of the last western Roman emperor Romulus Augustulus...
Coins attributed as Claudius II (with obverse legends a little off flan) that are actually Quintillus come to mind. ...just look for the Claudius...
Yes! Welcome! Your coin is common and not worth much (although fascinating)... and that's good news. There are tons and tons of great,...
Constantine II CONSTANTINVS IVN NOB C GLOR-IA EXERC-ITVS o on banners dot epsilon SIS dot Siscia RIC VII Siscia 236; Sear 17334 c3 334-335 AD...
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