Welcome to the Twilight Zone of coins with a Maximianus legend. There are some types after Galerius became Augustus that just say IMP MAXIMIANVS...
Here's mine: Justin II and Sophia, AE Follis. 31.4 mm 13.79 grams Obverse: DN IVSTINVS PP AVG, Justin on left holding cross on globe and Sophia...
3rd one might be Caracalla or Elagabalus...
Glad it's back up.
I think Jovian knew his time was almost up. And that's what happened anyway as he died from unnatural causes...
I don't have any frogs, but I understand in many parts of the world their habitats have been threatened. So we should be supporting ancient frogs,...
I keep moving up to higher grade coins. I think that @AncientJoe's example is spectacular and the scratch minor. One of my collecting foci for...
I have not ignored anyone yet but thanks for pointing the existence of the ignore button. Very few threads here get out of hand but once in awhile...
I was never able to grow a full beard. Kind of patchy and tri-colored: blonde, red, and brown. So you'll never see me approximating Grizzly Adams...
Follis. M stands for 40 nummi, K for 20 nummi, X for 10 nummi, etc. The nummus was tariffed to the solidus.
I don't think there is any silver. Hard to tell if anything can be cleaned up on the coin. It looks like it was already harshly cleaned. But it...
Sort of in between I guess for emperor Michael (that's my name). Plentiful enough that the populace would be well-fed and happy. I would strike...
I have read that Otacilia might have been a Christian and her husband marginally so. I believe there are 4th century sources writing well after...
Just got the same email you did.
Nice coin RC. Good addition to your collection.
Here's my hockey puck. It's amazingly large in hand. PTOLEMAIC EMPIRE EGYPT. ALEXANDRIA. Ptolemy IV 221-205 BC AE Drachma. (75.52g, 41mm, 12h)...
That's a very nice Herod Agrippa @Deacon Ray !
Interesting.
Interesting reverse type @panzerman - "The Felicity of our Augusti"
Roman provincial, 26mm 10.2 grams. Uncleaned example, not sure about the attribution. I originally thought it was Macrinus but it might be...
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