It's a great feeling to come across an unappreciated rarity and win it at auction! I am glad you were to acquire such a rarity for your...
Congratulations, @Nathan F! It's always a thrill to add a coveted rarity to one's collection. Well done!
Informative post, @Valentinian, as always. Here are a couple of similar coins from the Trier mint, though not the same issue. [IMG] Galerius as...
Kunker was NUTS today. There was only one item I needed for my Faustina I collection, this sestertius. It had an estimate of 40 €, which I thought...
Silver coins from earlier eras circulated a long time and are worn. Third century coins were often hoarded as soon as they were minted and appear...
Mercury: [IMG] Pseudo-autonomous. Roman provincial Æ 13 mm, 1.2 g. Antioch, Pisidia, time of Antoninus Pius, AD 138-161. Obv: ANTIOCH, draped...
Excellent first acquisition! A historically important emperor on a coin struck in a historically important city! This tetradrachm of Nero from...
The reverse type on this coin is the mirror image of a coin I posted for a previous edition of T-Bone Tuesday. That coin was part of the first...
My first Augustus was also minted in Iberia. [IMG] Augustus and Livia, issued under Tiberius, AD 14-29. Roman provincial Æ 31 mm, 21.48 g....
12 hours. Here's another Decius: [ATTACH] Trajan Decius AD 249-251. Roman AR antoninianus, 4.25 g, 21.5 mm, 6 h. Rome, 2nd officina, 2nd...
2 obols: [IMG] Livia, under Augustus, 27 BC - AD 13. Roman Æ diobol, 7.41 g, 24.2 mm, 1 h. Egypt, Alexandria, 6th series, AD 10-11. Obv: Bare...
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By weight, these are thought to be the diassarion denomination from this city. [IMG] Septimius Severus, AD 193-211. Roman provincial Æ 18.6 mm,...
I've had this unexceptional little provincial for many years. I don't post it much because it's rather mundane in its subject matter and well ......
I have picked up several very rare coins -- less than half a dozen known examples -- for my Faustina collection. Some of these I picked up for <...
Congratulations on expanding your collection with a long-sought-after type!
The coin is of Severus Alexander and the reverse features Tyche standing with rudder and cornucopiae. The reverse legend is unbroken and lengthy....
Given the size of the coin and the reverse legend that is visible, I think it's one of these: [ATTACH] Helena, Augusta AD 324-328/330. Roman...
Rephotographed this one: [ATTACH] Volusian, AD 251-253. Roman provincial Æ 28.2 mm, 11.26 g, 7 h. Cilicia, Seleucia ad Calycadnum, AD 251-253....
Looks like ABVNDANTIA to me.
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