Today I added to the references on dating Republican coins, with comments. http://esty.ancients.info/Repub/TimelineTable.html (The bulk of the...
Probus sometimes has cool armor and shield: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] VIRTVS PROBI AVG MARTI PACIF, Mars the pacifier walking left holding olive branch...
I collected ancient imitations, fourrees and barbarous radiates, for decades. Here are some of them for sale, remarkably inexpensively. Many are...
Four-horse chariots -- quadrigas -- are common on ancient coins. Chariots drawn by four other animals are less common. Here is one drawn by four...
The reverse type is usually as big as the flan, making off-centering often cut off something important like a horse's head, which I think happens...
Here are some major ancient-Greek-coin reference works for sale. I believe they are already priced less, sometime much less, than anywhere else....
Here is an example of the famous wresters/slinger type. It is not from Olympia, but comes about as close to showing games as you can get with an...
Here is one of Theophilus alone: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Theophilus, 829-842 28 mm. 7.87 grams. Sear 1666 ΘE-O FIL bASIL "These are the last...
It is even possible Christianity might be different. Constantine had a lot to do with the choice of which books made it into the Bible and which...
MoCKBu4, Ask for your money back and keep us posted as to what happens then.
Here is a Philip II sestertius of the common PRINCIPI IVVENT type: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
steve6, you have an excellent Syrian Philip of Seleucia and Pieria. I really like that type. Philip I and Philip II have the same legend, so...
Onofrio, the rest of us seem to think it is a modern fake. The entire region near the rim is wrong (as is the style of the Janus head). I hope you...
One Diocletian argenteus reverse type is intended to tell the public about the value of the new denomination: 96 to the (Roman) pound (of...
The current Agora auction (auction 59) is closing soon: http://agoraauctions.com/listing/ About twenty of the Roman imperial coins from the...
Our member red_spork suggested another important reference work by Harold B. Mattingly. I have read it and incorporated its arguments in the...
Red, you are right. I have that book and didn't include his arguments or his dates . I'll take a look. One thing to like about web sites, as...
How are dates assigned to Roman Republican denarii? Unlike under the empire, there is no portrait of an emperor to narrow down the date range....
Send your skeptics to: http://esty.ancients.info/numis/ A "Frequently Asked Questions" page, page 2 addresses why genuine coins are so available.
I added a top-quality Trajan hem-hem crown of Egypt, a nice denarius of Antoninus Pius and a Zeugma piece of his, and a Tripolis galley of...
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