Here's a copper from the year 43: [ATTACH]
David Vagi looks a lot younger than I expected!
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Thanks for the heads up!
I love that! The coin advertises there are two neocorates in the city (B NE) and there are two detailed tetrastyle temples to illustrate that. I...
A bargain purchase; this coin comes in umpteen varieties and attributing it was a bear! [ATTACH] Time of Severus Alexander, AD 231-235....
Thanks. Didn't see it. I'm used to seeing it below the photo of the coin.
That is correct. The coin is from Antioch and the H is an officina mark. Here's the listing in RIC V2: [ATTACH]
What's the next theme?
[ATTACH] Philip II, AD 244-249 (or 247-249). Roman provincial Æ 28.0 mm, 14.93 g, 12 h. Syria: Commagene, Zeugma. Obv: AVTOK K M IOVΛI ΦIΛIΠΠOC...
That's a very dramatic example! That's just the sort of thing I was looking for!
Here are a couple of coins produced by the Rome mint about a century apart, but they seem to reveal the sequence by which engravers produced dies....
When you find it, let us know so that we can rejoice with you, like the woman in Luke 15:8-9.
[MEDIA] [ATTACH] Lucilla, AD 164-169. Roman AR denarius, 3.30 g, 18.7 mm, 12 h. Rome, AD 164-166. Obv: LVCILLAE AVG ANTONINI AVG F, bare-headed...
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French language help needed for the listing in Cohen. It reads Son buste diadémé ou en cheveux à droite. I'm having trouble understanding en...
Looks like it says ITALIA to me.
Here's one I busted out of jail! [ATTACH] Gallienus, AD 253-268. Roman billon antoninianus, 3.61 g, 21.1 mm, 12 h. Cologne, AD 257-258. Obv:...
How about a Julia Titi with that reverse type? [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
This one was missing for a few years when it turned up under the clothes dryer, of all places. I figure that it fell out of my breast pocket when...
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