Cool coins! This was actually my 3rd Ancient I ever bought. Other than it being Vespasian and Titus, I really don't know too much about it. Can...
Love that high relief obverse! Cheers![ATTACH]
WM, That siliqua may look like Arcadius but as John has said earlier, the busts were very stylized. If we did not have the obverse or reverse...
Love that Siliqua, Steve! I will have to show off my latest Siliqua acquisitions some day.
Indeed JA! The age of child Emperors hiding behind the walls of Ravenna and Constantinople had begun. I was reading about the court of Arcadius a...
It was not Arcadius that you would have had to watch out for, but his wife Eudoxia. That was a mean and powerful woman!
Hey Wmicheal, what is the weight of the coin. Thanks!
Dat sexy Diadem :kiss:
Very nice Nero coins! We should have a thread for coins from Caligula?!
Nero Denarius Struck around 65 CE 3.0 grams. [ATTACH]
Very nice! I love the head towards heaven design. The design makes me think that Constantius looked for divine help in his first years in office....
FYI- MM and VK are Hispanic. :(
Oh that's some bs. :mad:
This just popped up on my feed this morning.... Apparently a suicide bomber tried to blow up the Ancient Temple of Luxor( which was also a Roman...
And what would a post be without a few coins! Here are a few podcasts I also listen to on a regular...
Ancient History is my true passion, with coin collecting tacked on the side of course! Any time I am not in the classrooms I am listening or...
@dougsmit . What is your opinion on the OP coin?
Get it!:greedy:
I was doing a bit of research and this is what I found" Magnus Maximus( 383-388), the tenacious usurper of the West, reduced by one-sixth the...
Amazing. Truly amazing! What is your address again JA:writer::smuggrin:
Separate names with a comma.
