This horse has a blanket on its haunches: [IMG] Hermaios and Calliope, 90-70 BC. Indo-Greek AR drachm, 16.2 mm, 1.80 gm. Obv: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ...
Here's a Constans: [IMG] Constans, AD 337-350. Roman billon light maiorina, 3.88 g, 19.6 mm, 5 h. Antioch, sixth officina, AD 348-350. Obv: D N...
My favorite misspelling is VINO REGINA -- "Wine the Queen" -- on this antoninianus of Salonina from Antioch: [ATTACH]
Sestertius like mine. Sestertii in the mid-third century weighed about half of what they did 200 years earlier.
What's the weight and diameter of that? It's either a sestertius or as of Trajan Decius with the Pannonia reverse type. I have one that isn't...
The end of the Antonine dynasty: [IMG] Commodus, AD 177-192. Roman orichalcum sestertius, 22.51 g, 29.2 mm, 1 h. Rome, AD 192. Obv: L AEL AVREL...
What a sneer! And what a provenance, @Orfew ! Three CT members no less! A common one of Titus as Caesar: [IMG] Titus as Caesar, AD 69-79. Roman...
The sculptor who created the obverse of the Sacajawea dollar and the Vietnam Women's Memorial died earlier this week. She was 80 years old....
You might be interested in these threads, each of which deal with the Cyprian plague in greater or lesser depth:...
What are you talking about? @Orange Julius told you it was RIC 40d. The RIC number refers to several coins with various marks in the field. [ATTACH]
Not sure who that is on the obverse of your coin, @7Calbrey . Diademed female bust? Laureate bust of a beardless emperor? Here are a couple of...
Very desirable coin, @maridvnvm ! Here's my Rome mint example. Note Concordia holds a double cornucopiae and the portrait style is different:...
I don't think you can say anything bad about Faustina II or Lucilla for which there is good quality historical evidence.
Sounds like a great day!!
Revisiting this thread after two years (because I rephotographed some coins), I realized I have a reverse die-match to @zumbly 's coin! I'd...
I do everything in a round-about way, but it works for me. I crop the image of the obverse and the reverse and I make a slide with them in...
Photographing some silver coins of Philip and Otacilia tonight. This is one I'm particularly happy with: [IMG] Otacilia Severa, AD 244-249. Roman...
I'd start with Marcianopolis, assuming this is from the same hoard as your Elagabalus/Tripod with serpent coin from there. Nicopolis ad Istrum is...
The reverse on the first one reads -ΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ (doesn't narrow it down much; it means -opolis) and features Cybele/Kybele seated left. That's a lion...
This was from Frank Robinson's mail bid sale 88, June 25, 2013. However, I never got around to photographing it until just now! Making her debut...
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