I have an easier quiz on my page: http://esty.ancients.info/unique/unique.html It shows reverses of Roman coins and asks you to identify the...
Someone mentioned rarity and value. I wrote an article on that in 2001 and I still stand by those thoughts. Here it is on the web:...
As you know, RIC stands for "Roman Imperial Coinage" so provincials with Greek legends do not count as "Not in RIC."
doucet, is your CONSTANTINOPOLI coin not RIC Constantinople 63, page 579, officina IA?
It is interesting that counterfeiters began working not long after the invention of coinage. Here is an ancient fake of the siglos type: [ATTACH]...
Here is an AE2 of the roman empress Aelia Flaccilla (wife of Theodosius who reigned 379-395). [ATTACH] AEL FLAC-CILLA AVG SALVS REI-PVBLICAE...
I have followed this series closely since 2001. The simple fact is those coins often come in great shape. It is true, however, that many coins...
Most of the fun may be the search, but I also get a lot of fun from the research. I have a library with the major references and many sale...
The sheikh who failed to pay for the Prospero lots he won (and possibly other artworks) died at age 48 in suspicious circumstances:...
Welcome 4to2! I encourage you to look back through older pages for fun (there are over 200 pages of thread titles). Many were very interesting...
[ATTACH] I greet you at the door! Happy Halloween! Troas, Abydos, 10 mm obol. c. 480-450 BC. [ATTACH] Eagle standing left, wings closed....
Nike on a tetradrachm of Roman Alexandria under Gallienus (253-268). [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
For the first 40 years of denarii (denarii began c. 211 B.C.) the Dioscuri-riding-right reverse is by far the most common reverse. The type occurs...
Quant, that's a very nice group of coins of rare emperors. There is a book entitled "Justinian II of Byzantium" by Constance Head (1972, U....
Phocas was Byzantine emperor 602-610. His coins spell his name "FOCA" but modern historians spell it with "Ph" for "F". Some of his coins are...
A Vitellius denarius: [ATTACH] XV VIR SACR FAC, tripod-lebes with dolphin above and raven below. "quindecimvir sacris faciundis" Denarius. 20-19...
Siliquae, thanks for the link to the article about coins of Valentinian. Maybe it goes without saying I am interested!
Speaking of big coins of Cilicia, here is 38 mm piece (27.87 grams) of Gordian III and Tranquillina from Seleucia ad Calycadnum, with those two...
If you are going to list mints, they will be in some order. Traditionally, they have been listed left-to-right (west to east) across a map, as far...
"It would not take long for an intelligent human to figure out that when their god-like powers have limitations, then they will be dead meat."...
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