I love that Trajan quadrans!
Thanks for the write-up, which is fascinating, as usual. I have one Gratian, a siliqua from Trier on which he has a very wide-eyed look -- a bit...
That ratio has been applied to England and Europe, which really had no cities remotely comparable in size to those further East. The closest was...
Thanks. Note that mine has the full ADVENTVS accompanied by only AVG.
Thanks. Very interesting. As indicated above, the ADVENTVS and ADVENTVI coins weren't issued only for Roma, but also for at least 16 other places...
Congratulations, @ValiantKnight! I wish you many more years of happy collecting. Those are wonderful coins. I've been collecting ancient coins...
Gallienus (son of Valerian I), Billon Antoninianus, 258 AD [RIC] or 260-261 AD [Sear], Mediolanum [Milan] Mint, Legionary Issue. Obv. Radiate and...
A more general question: if it's really the case that nobody has another example of a Hadrian ADVENTVS or ADVENTVI coin, does anyone know why they...
These quadrantes are all very cool. @Ryro, would you mind identifying some of yours? Who's the guy in the helmet, for example? Are they all from...
Thanks so much for the detailed explanation. Very reassuring!
Both of these arrived today, so I thought I'd post about them together, even though they're completely unrelated except in the sense, I suppose,...
Thank you, and thanks for all the other nice comments. Not that I'm losing sleep over it, because only one person brought it up, but do people...
Just out of curiosity, does anyone have a Provincial of Otho? If so, does his portrait look anything at all like the portraits on Otho's Imperial...
OK - but please tell me first what I'm looking for? What is it about Arcadius solidi that supposedly disqualifies them from having been...
We've discussed this topic multiple times before. See this lengthy post about later circulation of ancient coins, from a few months ago:...
I have nothing to post, @John Conduitt, but your wonderful write-up deserves more than a "like." I find all of it completely fascinating, even...
I posted in this very thread, more than a year ago, about my long-standing interest in genealogy. See...
A very nice example! There was an entire thread about these coins less than a week ago if you'd like to take a look. See...
PPRP, I was privately warned about your penchant for being contrary for the sake of contrariness. I don't even know why I bother to respond...
I understand what you're saying. My statement that the fixed price of gold was "low" back in the 1930s was simply a response to the argument that...
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