Thank you. David Sear is the only person I've seen who uses the "reduced" terminology on a regular basis, not only for the Centenionalis but for...
Thank you! Perhaps someday the location of the tomb of Alexander will be found. It was apparently still around in the Roman era, because both...
No problem! We all lift portions of our coin descriptions from others!
I find it very interesting! Here is my example of a Hadrian with the Canopus jar of Osiris on the reverse, although mine is from Hadrian's regnal...
@Roman Collector, I have only one Constantinopolis, but it's also from the Siscia Mint, 2nd Officina: Constantine I, Billon reduced...
Ha! Thanks, but I will never put my mind to photography any more complicated than pointing my cellphone at a coin and going "click." Technology is...
Thanks. I wish I could take credit for the photo, but it was the dealer's.
My only Salus coin is from the Republic: Roman Republic, Manius Acilius Glabrio, AR Denarius, 50 BCE (Harlan and BMCRR) or 49 BCE (Crawford),...
My smallest coin is this 10 mm., 1.22 g. AR Diobol from Mysia, Kyzikos, dating from ca. 450-400 BCE. It seems almost unimaginably tiny to me, so I...
Since I have only two sestertii, one from Marcus Aurelius and one from Philip I, that's an easy question for me to answer. The Marcus Aurelius...
So, no equivalent of AVG in the legend?
Makes sense to me! I certainly didn't think it through remotely like you did, but it just didn't seem "right" to me to consider the mid-3rd...
Trajan is also one of my favorite emperors, numismatically and otherwise. Without checking, I'm pretty sure I have more of his coins (not that the...
The funeral pyre that I always see as a wedding cake: Divus Antoninus Pius AR Denarius. Obv. Bare-headed bust right, slight drapery, DIVVS...
I think Sev is not short for Severus; it's short for Sebastos, which is the Greek equivalent of Augustus.
I also have several coins that encompass the decade of the 430s BCE, but I won't post any of them, because I'm very curious to know if anyone has...
Nice coin, but that's a whole different thread! We wouldn't want to get our animals all mixed up together, would we? The Philip animals are...
You should also post these over in the Gallienus Zoo coin thread to which I just added my own latest additions! But when are LRB's generally...
Thank you! I think Imperator is generally considered the Latin equivalent of the Greek Autokrater.
Since this was the most comprehensive thread on the "zoo" coins of Gallienus that we've had since I joined CT, I thought I'd add my two newest...
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