I have created and posted an educational web site about Christian symbolism on Roman coins:...
[ATTACH] Here is a Procopius (365-366 AD) AE3 of Nicomedia. Procopius was formerly rare (R2 or rarer in RIC, published long ago), but is at most...
Vetranio had only six AE types. Click here http://esty.ancients.info/ and then on the Vetranio link...
Above I wrote about selling books on Amazon and how some are priced too high to ever sell, but the high prices provoke other sellers to add copies...
A dealer can ask any price he feels like. Whether it will be sold at anywhere near that price is another matter. Any experienced collector...
Occasionally one can find a nice AE3 of Theodosius II, but it won't be as nice as a good solidus. Here is one from my Late Roman Bronze site...
[ATTACH] Portrait pieces of Varus are provincial coins that are extremely rare and expensive, but provincial pieces struck in his name can be...
Yes, DAFNE belongs on my site, as does the GLORIA EXERCITVS Gil mentioned. Over time I will try to add more types. Readers, if you have more...
Some Roman imperial reverse types are unique to particular emperors. I added one to my "unique" page:...
Both appear to be modern fakes. The first is not a regular ancient coin type and the second is a poor example of a well-known fake.
With zubmly's suggestion I found it. It is BMC Greek Phoenicia, Sidon 212, plate XXIII.13, of Nero, struck 58/9 AD. The lettering below Europa on...
[ATTACH] Trajan (98-117 AD) minted at Seleucia Pieria in Syria, with the sacred stone of Zeus Kacioc (see the reverse legend below the shine with...
I have not seen it in hand. However, I find the pits unlike casting pits and the I am convinced it is genuinely ancient. I have seen (and own a...
I was contacted by a man with this coin he found in an old sewing machine! [ATTACH] [ATTACH] I would appreciate help identifying it.
Here is a website for beginners: http://esty.ancients.info/numis/ It will get you off the ground. Among many other things, it also has book...
The reverse photo is upside down. It is an "anonymous bronze" of Class A2, attributed to Basil II and Constantine VIII (976-1028), Sear Byzantine...
I agree that Starr is disappointing for those who just want one owl which is likely 449 BC or later and so not thoroughly covered in that book...
You might buy the books. Starr "Athenian Coinage" is cheap with many coins illustrated on 26 page plates ($25 in reprint on Amazon). Seltman...
Here is a sestertius of Faustina I who died in 141. Struck 147 at Rome. AETER-NITAS, Aeternitas seated left holding phoenix on globe and long...
On the great majority of coins of Constantine he is Augustus (AD 307-337). Less common, and more desirable, are the early issues (306-307) when he...
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