I thought I 'd add something depicting the collection of the animals, in this case a rhino...this mosaic comes from a villa on Sicily which may...
Great coin and presumably a rarity. I also have a Herennia Etruscilla...it's about the size and weight of a sestertius, so I guess therefore that...
That was a great deal. You probably could clean it up a bit, but the dirt helps bring out the details in the devices, so maybe just leave it alone.
Follis of Diocletian. Somebody somewhere got a nice ancient souvenir.
Somebody sent me a coin in a regular envelope. I got the envelope with a hole in it and sans coin.
I posted the obverse of this coin on facebook and somebody remarked that Anastasius had one blue eye and one black eye, which I had never heard of.
Very interesting coins @Finn235, @TIF, @Roman Collector, and @zumbly ! I'll have to look for this reverse. Never had heard of Telesphorus until...
I didn't know he was from Florida. But yeah, pretty cool. ;)
Just picked this one up, as I had yet to have a Florian in my collection. Florianus (Latin: Marcus Annius Florianus Augustus; died 276), also...
Nice coin. No hammered coins for me yet. I'd like to get into Medievals at some point, outside of Byzantine. Perhaps the Crusader states.
Nice set!
I was going through the results of the FSR auction and saw that a nummus of Majorian sold for $1,050 with a high bid of $1,200! Almost the price...
From what I can deduce, Priscian and Procopius' Panegyrics are primary sources for his reign. Since I haven't read them I can't say how much they...
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Nice cleaning job there. Quite impressive @galba68 !
So the nummus had a nice run....just shy of 150 years as the smallest coin struck in the late roman world!
I've had coin dreams before, usually when I have spent hours ID'ing coins in the so-called "uncleaned" hoards that I use to buy.
Your coin may be struck in a better quality billon, hence you should be happy. There is a small chance it is a forgery - don't see any flow lines...
Clearly a Tetricus radiate (270-274 A.D.) Antoninianus of the Gallic empire, Constantine I of the Roman empire (306-337 A.D.), and a wolf and...
Calculating the number of solidi to the pound (72) shows that Anastasius left a surplus of 23 million solidi.
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