One last question, @Marsyas Mike : how sure are you the reverse reads AETERNITAS? Because there are additional possibilities for AVGVSTA and...
WOW!! Just WOW!!!!
Fortuna holding globe and rudder???? [ATTACH]
Let's look at the RIC listing for middle bronzes with the AETERNITAS reverse inscription and depicting Providentia (two different reverse...
Artemis killing a stag: [IMG] Quasi-autononymous issue, time of Nero. Roman provincial Æ 14.6 mm, 3.24 g, 6h. Lydia, Hierocaesarea; Magistrate...
What could be a more apt coin to post for this thread?! Fantastic coin!
This week's Franklin's World cartoon made me think of Hadrian's travel series. Post your coins depicting Alexandria, Hadrian's travels, or...
What a fascinating coin, @Jochen1 ! I need to look high and low for another example to add to my own collection. I favor the local Thacian myth...
Here's a Gratian very similar to @ancient coin hunter 's example. [IMG] Gratian, AD 379-383 Roman Æ maiorina (Æ2); 22.6 mm, 5.87 gm, 8:00...
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Yes, that's what I meant. Thank you for bringing the error to my attention; I have edited my post above to avoid future confusion. I, too,...
The Orphic Hymn to Dionysos: [MEDIA]
I posted these comments about the Roman coin market elsewhere, but they belong here, too. One thing I have noticed over the past 12 years or so...
Yes, that is RIC 346b. The other example (DIVA FAVSTINA) is the British Museum specimen 352, which I illustrated above -- the one misidentified...
I think yours is a reverse die match to the other coin in the OP.
Interesting, but how do they know it's Dionysus? How do they know it's not a head of a human female or of a goddess? I think that in the absence...
Nice. I have a couple dozen of these dual-portrait coins of Gordian III and Tranquillina. Here is my most recent one: [ATTACH] Gordian AD 238-244...
Then how do you explain the lack of a catalog number for a coin with the same features as 280 but the obverse legend DIVA FAVSTINA? How do you...
Please feel free to post comments, coins erroneously described in standard references, or anything you feel is relevant! A word of caution about...
The Corpus Nummorum Thracorum online notes these issues from Mesembria are of the 4 unit denomination: [ATTACH]
Separate names with a comma.
