Interesting reverse type, @dougsmit ! I love it!This one was struck to commemorate Tacitus' "Victory over the Goths": [IMG] Tacitus, AD 275-276....
Post your coins of Pisidian Antioch or anything you feel is relevant! Pisidian Antioch was one of many cities named Antioch founded by Seleucus I...
Attributing these coins can be tricky. Here's a similar coin, but it's unclear who is on the coin because experts disagree. Augustus or Tiberius?...
Cool. This is noted in BMCRE4 as a note on p. 189: [ATTACH] I think BMC errs in describing the object as a "box"; rather, I believe it's...
Great job with the pattern recognition, @Ryro ! Time for a ... [ATTACH]
This one is probably of interest only to Antonine collectors and doesn't warrant its own thread, but I have a subcollection of Faustina I and II...
Horse on a coin minted east of Iran: [IMG] Hermaios and Calliope, 90-70 BC. Indo-Greek AR drachm, 16.2 mm, 1.80 gm. Obv: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ...
Here's one of Florian with a CONCORDIA MILITVM reverse. I suppose there was "harmony of the soldiers" -- until they switched sides and killed him!...
Fish! [IMG] Greek AE 17 Mysia, Cyzicus, c. 400 BC - 280 BC or later 4.02 g; 17.3 mm Obv: Head of Kore Soteira, right. Rev: KYZI, tripod, tunny...
There's Severus Alexander and his mama, too: [ATTACH] Severus Alexander and Julia Mamaea. Roman provincial Æ Pentassarion, 10.1 g, 25.7 mm....
Caracalla and Julia Domna: [ATTACH]Caracalla, with Julia Domna, AD 198-217. Roman provincial Æ Pentassarion, 10. 66 g, 27 mm, 1 h. Moesia...
Here's my favorite Antoninus Pius sestertius: [IMG] Antoninus Pius, AD 138-161. Roman orichalcum sestertius, 23.11 g, 29.4 mm, 12 h. Rome, AD...
The only sestertius with the ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P obverse legend and a seated female figure with a cornucopiae is RIC 548, p.101. Here is the...
My favorite Martian: [MEDIA] My favorite Mars: [IMG] Trajan, AD 98-117 Roman AR denarius; 2.95 gm, 20 mm Rome, AD 114-117 Obv: IMP CAES NER...
Excellent example of a VIIC type!
Bronze Trajan: [IMG] Trajan. A.D. 98-117. Roman orichalcum as, 8.49 g, 23.5 mm, 6 h. Struck in Rome for circulation in Syria (?); Struck in...
An enjoyable and educational group! You've had a lot of fun so far this year! My favorite is the Elagabalus provincial with the snake in a basket...
It has the same general introduction as in volumes I and II, and then resumes the catalog with the coins of the first tetrarchy, beginning with...
Fun Maxentius with a disco dance party going on the pediment, like on mine: [IMG] Maxentius as Augustus, AD 307-312. Roman billon follis, 6.53 g,...
Daughter of an emperor, wife (and cousin) of an emperor, empress, mother of an emperor, deified goddess after death: FAUSTINA II: [ATTACH] Next:...
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