If the objective is to preserve archaeological information then suppressing collecting is a misguided approach that will inevitably fail....
Here is more (shocking!) information posted (not by me) on the Moneta-L list. You really need to sign this petition! ("Coming soon to a theater...
CNG and others wrote me about an assault on collecting in Germany (below). I wrote a response on the site and you should too. ***** Over the last...
JA, that is a very attractive group, well written up. Well done!
I have a sneaking suspicion that for many of us "one of each" would, by preference, be "one of each type in the British Museum." Unfortunately ...
AJ, that's an idea. I chose to illustrate larger coins with larger images, approximately proportional to their actual sizes.
I have jazzed up my Table of Contents page: http://esty.ancients.info/ Previously there were no pictures and you had to read words describing...
Long ago on another list the question was posed "What do people collect?" I assembled the answers here:...
Doug has it right. It is Type 26, from Antioch, on this page about late Roman Ae coins: http://esty.ancients.info/ricix/ Click the image for a...
Here is the Constans I mentioned.[ATTACH]
JA noted, "According to Bruck there are at least 26 altar varieties on these types." The table he gave shows two have crosses (from London and...
I like JA's Constans with two-standards project. Constans is much more common with one-standard (and later, as Augustus). Here is mine. It is from...
Here is a Commodus sestertius:[ATTACH] [ATTACH] 33 mm. Not in Sear but close to Sear 5765 BMC 453 RIC 310 Struck Jan - Dec 9, 181. This one has...
Here is a Licinius II (317-324)with a small head and unbroken obverse legend. It is the first issue for him when he became Caesar in 317 under his...
Cucumbor's coins are both very nice, but the AE1 is far more unusual than the siliqua. It is hard to tell with on-line photos, but that is a big...
On my beginner's educational site: http://esty.ancients.info/numis/ on page 3 I mention some books: http://esty.ancients.info/numis/intro3.html...
I agree the laurel wreath is "outlined." The hair over the ear is "strengthened." To me, the rest of the obverse looks untouched. So, the (light)...
I have made changes to my educational site on early Christian symbolism on Roman coins. http://esty.ancients.info/Christian...Symbols.html I...
Hold the coin up to the pictures on your screen. Pick the one which is most like the coin, except perhaps a bit brighter. I suppose it is...
It may be that if you get either one you will immediately wish you had a better one. I'm with Ides on this one: Pick option C and wait for a...
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