Here is one from Tripolis, Phoenicia. [ATTACH] 23 mm. 9.44 grams. Caracalla. 198-217. Astarte standing right, foot on prow, one either side the...
The original would be silver, not gold. The photo does not make it look like 24 caret gold, but if it is, it is not an ancient coin.
Almost any quoted pedigree can be invented unless the catalog had a photo, and photos were not common in sales before about 1950. Any criminal can...
That was very kind of you. Thank you for the information about the weight. Very high, but not certainly too high.
I bought this massive as in 1988 at a Glendining's auction in London and took it to the BM. The Roman curator was out so Martin Price (The Greek...
Big coins are very impressive. Here is a large diameter (47 mm!) silver coin. [ATTACH] It is Samnid, possibly of Nuh bin Nasr, struck c. 365-387...
I agree that the OP type is one of the most attractive and artistic of Republican coins. If it is not well-centered important design elements can...
I added eight nice Roman and Roman provincial and Greek oriental coins to my sale site: http://augustuscoins.com/Valentinian.html Here are three:...
@DanL, the second (obverse) photo of yours is upside down. (The "M" is on the reverse and the two figures on the obverse.) The obverse shows...
That is a common Claudius as of the Minerva type. It is very commonly found in England and certainly not a coin that could push that lot up to $300.
Thank you all every much for initiating or contributing to this interesting thread. Which Roman coin types have the best letterforms? Here is a...
Here is a coin of the famous Claudius (AD 41-54) struck at Roman Alexandria in year 12 (51/2): [ATTACH] 26 mm. 10.04 grams. Emmett 80. A diobol....
The god Dionysos favored the panther, a big cat normally depicted with spots. Here is one on a mosaic in the Archaeological Museum of Pella:...
@Ed Snible, that's it! Thank you!
@John Anthony, the coin you posted has a "T" that look like a "T". One of the Stancomb coins looks very much like mine (not like a "T"), and the...
Slabs take up a lot of space. If the coins you have are worth a lot each and you have a limited number, fine. However, if you have hundreds or...
A while ago we had a good thread on helmets: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ancient-helmet-types.297306/ Of course, very many ancient coin...
Extremely rare denomination. "IA" means 10 to 1 in place of the usual 20 to 1 (parts copper to silver). [ATTACH] Tacitus, 275-276. The previous...
The Caracalla/radiate lion design also comes on an antoninianus: [ATTACH] 22 mm. Stuck 215 AD. ANTONINVS PIVS AVG GERM, radiate bust right PM TRP...
Dan Clark was a dealer who bought thousands of lousy Byzantine copper coins and sorted through them. He developed a classification scheme that...
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