Thanks for the virtual tour. Great article.
Thanks @Bing. I took those shots in sunlight - hard to make anything out. Since then I've learned to use overhead lighting (a spotlight in fact)...
Nice @Roman Collector
Balbius, green with black highlights [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Delmatius, glossy black: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
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I have this Domitian Provincial - Antioch. Left facing Domitian with kind of an upward gaze. Domitian, A.D. 81-96 AE 25, 11.7 grams - SYRIA,...
Nice penmanship. Reminds me of @jamesicus here on CT.
Galley: Theodosius I 379-395 A.D. AE 23, 4.8 grams - Cyzicus A.D. 379-383 Obverse: DN THEODOSIVS PF AVG Diademed, helmeted, draped, and...
What I am confused about is the price. Pre-reform I suppose, otherwise how does one value denarii against folles? I suppose we assume the...
Nice write-up and great coins all. Congrats on getting the article featured.
Yep. Cyzicus
Nice acquisition. I thought about bidding on that one because of the denomination. Glad that it went to a CTer. Here's a victory: IMP CAES M CLOD...
One wonders sometimes about the Arab-Byzantine fals. Why would they strike a copy of a ruler from one hundred years earlier? I surmise that the...
As bad as he may have been, he did rule for 14 years. One thinks that if his behavior had been as bad as Caligula, he would have been overthrown...
I agree. On that group there a lot of fakes and "what the heck is this coin" posts. Not much history or background, certainly not like CT.
On my coin they look a bit like aliens on the obverse. Oh wait, they were aliens!
Prices seem to be edging higher. The facebook ancient/medieval coin group has a lot of discussion on this trend. Even the FSR auction got very...
Here's another coin procured in the recent FSR auction. A nephew and close adviser of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I, Justin II became...
Otho was known to support a nice rug or toupee - you don't get a sense of that from these early issues where no one knew what he looked like. And...
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