I have so many coins of Trebonianus Gallus with oblong flans that I wondered if the flans were prepared with some sort of rolling pin! [IMG]...
Tough one, because I purchased some coins I really love. But this one is the coolest, because it features a scene from the gigantomachy on its...
I think this is the most interesting coin from January. Coins like it helped solve a century-old mystery about which "Caesarea" may have struck...
I know @Ocatarinetabellatchitchix has already posted the type, but this is the only INVICTVS that I have. [IMG] Victorinus, AD 269-271. Roman...
My only coin with a winged thunderbolt as a major design element: [IMG] Hadrian, AD 117-138. Roman orichalcum semis, 4.06 g, 18.1 mm, 7 h. Rome,...
Here's the listing in BMC Lydia, p. 96: [ATTACH]
DUDE!!!!!! EYPHKA!! I found it with an ac search for "*AKKI* Demeter" Because AKKI was the only part of the reverse legend I could be confident...
Those are good questions. I suppose I shouldn't have accepted RIC V.2 uncritically, because the reverse description there calls it a parazonium....
The first seems closest to the reverse design in that Demeter has a billowing veil over her head and the snake-biga is traveling left to right ......
I do think ours are double die matches. That makes us coin twins!
Here's the listing in BMC Cilicia, p. 32. We both list ours as BMC 9, though you claim we have different BMC numbers: [ATTACH] SNG Levante 1374...
The dealer who auctioned it last December attributes it to Hieropolis in Phrygia. RPC has not yet published its Severan volumes, so Elagabalus...
I hope a parazonium counts. [IMG] Carus, AD 282-283. Roman billon Antoninianus, 3.57 g, 21 mm, 6 h. Antioch, AD 282. Obv: IMP C M AVR CARVS P F...
It's always a fun experience to pick up an unappreciated rarity at auction. Well done, @Orfew! I picked up one coin from the auction too -- a...
It doesn't look made of gold to me.
Interesting write up! The book you describe, Connections, Communities, and Coinage: The System of Coin Production in Southern Asia Minor, AD...
What about the New Edition, though? :p [MEDIA] No wings, but it illustrates a repetitive Minerva type. This one of Septimius Severus is one of...
That's a gorgeous coin, @Clavdivs! May 2021 bring you solace.
Fun reverse type! I'll have to add that to my want list!
Enviable collection of prutot, @Deacon Ray, and a great idea for a Palm Sunday thread! Palm fronds are often used as a design element, such as on...
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