Here is a Syrian tet of the weird (according to the sources) Elagabalus. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Sorry about the slightly out of focus obverse.
Seems like they struck good ones at the beginning of Valerian II's time but somewhat worse ones as time passed, more debasement, etc. We see the...
I'm looking forward to purchasing my coins in the future with cryptocurrency!!! :dead:
On re-watching the video I get the impression that striking the coins is an amazing amount of work, considering the small batches of flans...
Great coins everybody and thanks for sharing your faves.
Here's a bunch of LRB"s in a pile. [ATTACH] I also have many more. This was an "uncleaned" hoard I bought in a fixed price sale from a dealer in...
Well, here is an As of Augustus... [ATTACH] [ATTACH] A filler until I get an AEGYPTVS denarius...Next, let's see one of those!
Thanks for the link @ewomack ! Very interesting.
Fantastic. Congrats on the newborn.
That's great!
I found this video doing a Google search. Thought I would share it. [MEDIA]
Great stuff @galba68 !!!
Great coin @Bing. I sure wish I had one in my collection. It would be nice to hold Julius' soul in my hand! ;)
Looks genuine and it may have had contact with the elements in the soil for a long time, let's say 1800 years.
Nice haul. I can't imagine the authorities would be terribly upset by you taking these coins with you - they are common types. But perhaps the...
Well if you did find a coin of Roman Egypt (looks to be Diocletian, perhaps) then that is a very interesting phenomenon as TIF points out. One...
Nice one of the Optimo Principi!!!
Beautiful coin and a nice example of OS. On Otacilia, here is a snippet... "Severa and Philip are sometimes considered as the first Christian...
Congrats on the new AP.
Nice coin. Aurelian kind of saved the empire by defeating Odenathus and Zenobia who had taken control of the eastern provinces and Egypt from the...
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