Five of these six goddesses (no Minerva) appear on coins of Faustina II: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
It's Tuesday! That mean's it's time for T-Bone! Everybody wants to be nicknamed T-Bone! [MEDIA] After the Goths ambushed the Roman army and...
No uraeus, I guess. I'll invoke the 12 hour rule and post a coin with a different serpent: [IMG] Gordian III, AD 238-244. Roman provincial Æ 27.1...
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That's lovely, @Finn235 ! You don't see Annia Faustina every day!
I love doing die studies like that, @DonnaML ! They are a lot of fun. Here's one that is RELATED from Nicopolis. This one has Diadumenian's father...
This was the hardest attribution of a provincial Mac & Di I ever had to make. I asked the good folks here for help. You can barely see Tyche...
This one couldn't be mailed for about a month after the auction closed in Spain because the post office was shut down for COVID-19. Then it took...
Mac & Di for sure. Homonoia with patera and cornucopiae for sure. Probably Marcianopolis, especially if there is an epsilon on the reverse field....
How sure are you of the legends? Could it be this? [ATTACH]
That's most likely a genuine ancient coin that was struck on a cast flan.
Wow! A Gonzaga!!! :wideyed:
Is there anyone who doesn't have one of these? LOL! [IMG] Gaius Egnatuleius, c.f. 97 BC. Roman Republican AR quinarius, 1.68 g, 14.6 mm, 11 h....
Nicer than my raw one. I've had it since I was a small boy. [ATTACH]
I'm primarily an ancients collector, but I got my start in US coinage. I've had this one since I was a small boy ... [ATTACH] It may not look...
I have a coin of Lysimachos's wife, Arsinoe II. She was the daughter of Ptolemy I and Berenice. Lysimachos divorced Amastris to marry her and then...
This one says "Victory over the Goths": [IMG] Tacitus, AD 275-276. Roman billon antoninianus, 3.57 gm, 21.1 mm. Ticinum, AD 276. Obv: IMP C M CL...
Nice coins and informative write-up, too! Here's a Max Thrax sestertius. Dude looks really acromegalic on this one: [IMG] Maximinus I, AD...
If it's a delta for sure and not an alpha, it's a griffin and not one of the flying horses of Apollo (often called "Pegasus" in the zoo series). I...
You would enjoy collecting a set of the 12 Dii Consentes!
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