Here are some suggestions: Julian by Gore Vidal, quite good!) [IMG] Count Belisarius by Robert Graves (rollicking good book about the Byzantine...
Amazing stuff. Coins are a bit crusty but they should clean up pretty well.
Sweet coin and nice addition to your collection.
I should add that Singara (modern-day Sinjar, Iraq) is one of the easternmost mints in the empire. It later fell to the Sassanids in the time...
Nice catch @furryfrog02 and cheaper than a candy bar. Just holding something in your hand that is 1500 years old for that price is amazing. I've...
Very nice example @Alwin - and @Alegandron I still need a Laelianus.
Very interesting bronze artifacts. I guess they could be just about anything.
Typical oblong flan of the mid third century Sestertii: Severus Alexander, 222-235 A.D. VICTORIA AVGVSTI [IMG] [IMG]
Tranquillina, wife of Gordian III, AE 26 of Singara, 10.7 grams, 12h MESOPOTAMIA, Singara Obverse: SAB TRANQVILLINA AVG, diademed and draped...
Marcus Aurelius Marius was a Roman usurper who claimed the throne after the downfall of the Gallic Emperor Postumus. Postumus had refused to let...
Romanus III or Michael IV A.D. 1028-1041 AE Anonymous Follis, 28mm, 12.7 grams Obverse: EMMANOVHL, facing bust of Christ, wearing nimbus...
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One of my more reactive coins, with quite a green obverse. Caracalla. MACEDON, Thessalonica Caracalla. 198-217 A.D. AE 26, 14.9 grams, 7h...
I would love to see it some day.
He was supposed to have reddish hair, no?
Probably issued towards the end of his reign. Nice find @galba68
Scholarship these days seems to indicate that Maximinus was not as fiendish as he is portrayed in the sources. A capable commander, he had risen...
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