In order for the Empire to be able to issue restoration coinage, which it apparently did (as I see from this thread) at least as late as Marcus...
I'm glad I'm not the only one! I thought there was something wrong with me, because I couldn't find it anywhere on the coin.
Sorry to hear that. Is there tracking on them? Not that it's a guarantee of anything, but I've gotten so used to it that I'm very uncomfortable...
Recent delivery times from Europe to New York City, all in the last month: 31 hours from Zedelgem, West Flanders, Belgium to NYC via DHL:...
Trajan AR Drachm, 115-Feb. 116 AD, Arabia Bostra (or Rome*) Mint. Obv. Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Trajan right, with paludamentum,...
Thanks for the information. Although I don't think the Marcus Aurelius-Italia sestertii could really be that rare, even just considering the three...
Indeed. A lot of likes, which is nice, but not one person responded substantively.
The seller does identify the coin as RIC 1080, so perhaps you're right that that's the explanation, at least in part, for the comparatively high...
@dougsmit, thanks for your wish! I hope that either I have enough money someday, or live long enough, or both, to buy a hundred more sestertii --...
Thanks, @Sulla80. I have now read the Müller and Rigsby articles, and went through the Noe/Kleiner book looking at all the references to Tralles....
Yes, I know about the < 50% silver definition of billon, although at some point the percentage drops so low, and/or the appearance becomes so...
Well. That didn't last long. Can we all please amend what I said earlier to something like "I'm going to limit myself to two sestertii"? I was...
Thanks for the explanation. I would think that the technique used would have varied from place to place. For example, the tetradrachms I see...
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A Happy Father's Day to all you fathers out there! My own father died six years ago (it's hard to believe that it's been that long). He was 94,...
I agree with Kleiner myself! And also found it interesting that Pinder's book -- the only one of the books you list that's available online --...
Perhaps that was the reason for excluding such coins from the Roman Provincial category, but I don't think it would be any more difficult or...
@Al Kowsky, I assumed that my coin had been cleaned or dipped in some sort of commercial cleaner, in order to make it look the way it does. Since...
Those are great coins. But I think Marcus Aurelius is holding a scepter, not a spear: that's how RIC describes it, and how it's described in...
What is that in the middle of the "parowlot's" forehead? It looks almost like a third eye.
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