For the reigning emperor in the Antonine period, distinguishing between aes and dupondii is easy: the emperor is laureate in the case of the...
I love it! It's an excellent illustration of the differences.
I have always wondered if I could successfully pass off some late Roman bronze AE3 culls as pennies. Imagine getting a Constantine-era GLORIA...
The Julia Domna has LAETITIA standing left, holding wreath in right hand and rudder in left hand, RIC 561, BMCRE 46. [ATTACH]
You need to read the letters in the lower field of the reverse between the two figures.
Thanks! That's what attracted me to it, even though it doesn't exactly have 5/5 surfaces.
[ATTACH] Silver denarius of Nerva, struck Sept 18 - Dec 31, AD 97. Features Liberty holding cap and scepter. What? You were expecting a 1797...
Mars with a paludamentum: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Same general reverse TYPE but these were struck by various mints and have various control marks. Here are some of mine with similar reverses:...
Nerva was childless and the historical record is completely devoid of any mention of a wife, so I'm going with him. [ATTACH] Nerva, AD 96-98....
Pegasus!!! [IMG] Caligula, AD 37-41. Roman provincial Æ 20 mm, 6.74 g. Peloponnese, Corinthia, Corinth, Ae. P. Vipsanius Agrippa and M. Bellius...
This little Greek coin has the foreparts of both a boar and a lion! [IMG] Mysia, Kyzikos (c.480 BC) AR Trihemiobol, 10 mm, 1.16 g Obv:...
I wish I had a coin to illustrate an aqueduct to start this thread, but I don't. I thought this (satirical) article in the Onion was funny. Here...
Today's Franklin's World comic ... [ATTACH] ... is about this coin: [IMG] Gallienus, AD 253-268. Roman billon antoninianus, 3.66 g, 21.4 mm, 6...
Nerva's kinda grumpy, too: [ATTACH]
Here's just such a river god: [IMG] Postumus, AD 260-269. Roman billon antoninianus, 2.54 g, 22.4 mm, 12 h. Trier (some attribute to Cologne),...
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Just a question, @maridvnvm -- what are these symbols after the mintmark on these issues from Siscia. I suspect they are non-Latin, non-Greek...
Looks fine to me. The metallic composition of these coins is different from Republican denarii and that's why it looks odd to you.
Roman provincial of some kind. Take it out of the holder and rephotograph it. I can't make out the legends like this. Also, it would be helpful...
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