Weakly struck.
Cool coin, @David Atherton! And never apologize for the condition of a coin known by only two specimens! You take what you can get! I have a...
Interesting write-up and attractively patinated coin, @Clavdivs! I have no thoughts about the Pharaonic succession, but do have this one to share....
Fun write-up, as always, @Ryro! I got nymphs! [IMG] Lucius Verus, AD 161-169. Roman Provincial Æ assarion, 4.23 g, 18 mm. Thrace, Augusta...
Informative write-up, @Claudius_Gothicus! Well-researched and cool coins! Gallienus' coins from Viminacium are uncommonly encountered. Because I...
Here's one of my favorite Faustina provincials. [IMG] Faustina II, AD 147-175. Roman provincial triassarion, 6.34 g, 23.4 mm, 7 h. Thrace,...
@Mammothtooth -- I think that's a coin that circulated a lot during the prosperous early-mid second century. It makes no difference whether it's...
[IMG] Vespasian, AD 69-79 Roman provincial Æ 24.4 mm, 9.75 g Phrygia, Apameia, under Proconsul Plancius Varus, AD 60-79 Obv: ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΩΡ ΚΑΙΣ[ΑΡ...
The Antonine period, specifically. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
That's a very nice one! Mine are not so well-preserved. I have an antoninianus and a sestertius. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
[IMG] Claudius, AD 41-54. Billon Tetradrachm, 10.32 gm, 24.0 mm. Alexandria, AD 46. Obv: ΤΙ ΚΛΑΥΔΙ ΚΑΙΣ ΣΕΒΑ ΓΕΡΜΑΝΙ ΑΥΤΟΚΡ, laureate head of...
He might not have fiddled, but you know he was boogying down!! [MEDIA]
Oh, yeah! You know some hard-workin' plebian used it to buy his six-year-old daughter some sandals. I'll bet its surfaces have traces of ancient...
Informative and interesting write up, David! Here's one that hasn't been posted yet. [IMG] Cleopatra Thea, Queen of Syria, with son Antiochus...
That's a great coin, with historical significance. It was probably issued in AD 147-148 because Pius' fifth congiarium was given for the 900th...
Fun and informative write-up, as usual, @Ocatarinetabellatchitchix! This tetradrachm of Nero from Alexandria was one of my first ancient coin...
Resurrecting this old thread to show this similarly-themed coin of Amastris in Paphlagonia. It's not the most flattering portrait of the empress,...
Hints on a couple others: #1 reads AVT K OΠEΛΛIOC CEVH MAKPEINOC on the obverse and VΠ ΠONTIANOV MAPKIANOΠOΛITΩN on the reverse. #2's...
The one with the most legible inscriptions is the middle one, which I reproduce here: [ATTACH] Note the obverse reads: ΑΝΤΩΝЄΙΝΟϹ ΑVΓVϹΤΟϹ. This...
At the time -- some 20 years ago -- this was the most I'd ever paid for a coin. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Next: same theme.
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