Speaking of hump vs. humps, one issue I forgot to mention about my coin is the mystery of why this type depicts a two-humped Bactrian camel --...
If you don't care too much about certain defects, there's one available right now on VCoins for only $60, with a decent obverse portrait of Trajan...
It's not mentioned in the Wikipedia article, but the phrase is also famous for its use as a plot point in Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale.
For a specific example which seems to confirm your comment about similarity, and raises the same questions -- although I don't think the...
From that description, I don't even want to speculate!
The "Ancient Selfies" book is a good, inexpensive book with decent (although small) photos, but if Pangerl's book on Hellenistic coin portraits is...
I don't know how, but apparently I did!
I just noticed this comment of yours . . . . I didn't realize that you had solved the mystery. Now I understand why those words appear on coins...
The reverse image is essentially identical to the one on RPC III 4073; see https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/search/browse?volume_id=3&number=4073...
Thanks for narrowing it down! By the way, a search for "ΔHMAPX ЄΞ" on Coinarchives.com yields 111 results, for a variety of emperors and Caesars...
Thanks for the comments about the meaning of the Greek legends. I do know that if you browse through the online version of RPC III, and the...
Here are a couple of photos I just took of my Diocletian antoninianus. I think both (especially the reverse photo) are a little less blurry than...
Mariniana (wife of Valerian I), Silvered Billon Antoninianus. 254-258 AD, Viminacium [Rome?] Mint. Obv. DIVAE MARINIANAE, Veiled and draped bust...
This coin doesn't fit any of my other animal reverse threads, so I guess I have to start a new one! It's only my second Roman provincial coin,...
Crispina (wife of Commodus), AR Denarius 180-182 AD. Obv. Draped bust right, CRISPINA AVGVSTA/ Rev. Juno standing facing, veiled, head left,...
Here are my two Diocletians. The first one is very much like several others above (except that it's from Nicomedia), and also shows liquid...
To the extent I keep coins in flips, I use only double flips, so the coin is in a different compartment from the paper tag. Never mind the...
All the ancient ones are out on display right now, so that's not an issue for them. And although the other trays aren't marked, the ones with the...
Ancient coins have been "handled" -- and/or buried in dirt -- for a couple of thousand years. And every one of them has been cleaned, unless it...
Don't forget that you can prevent sliding around by using coin trays with compartments that are the right size for the coins, and/or by putting...
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