My favorite Max: [ATTACH] Maximinus I, AD 235-238. Roman orichalcum sestertius, 26.7 mm, 18.01 gm. Rome, AD 236-238. Obv: MAXIMINVS PIVS AVG...
Yes, it is!
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Here's my Aretas IV: [ATTACH] Aretas IV, Philopater, 9 BC - AD 40, and wife Shaquilath I. Nabatean AE 17.5 mm, 4.30 g. Nabatea, Petra. Obv:...
Nice one, with legible inscriptions, too! [ATTACH]
Your coins are good examples of how Laetitia is not only depicted with a scepter, but often with an anchor or rudder instead of a scepter. I like...
The most intellectually honest thing to do -- and I think @dougsmit would agree -- is to attribute it to an "unknown Syrian mint."
Very cool. I agree that, while unclear on even the better but die-matched example from Numismatik Naumann, it looks more like a croc than a prow.
Thanks for the kind words! I'd be willing to submit it -- along with the results of my earlier Soaemias study -- if it's something that @Nicholas...
Half a year ago, I posted the results of an inquiry I made into the denarii of Julia Soaemias which are assigned catalog numbers by RIC but which...
Very appealing coin and an interesting idea for a thread. You show the first issue of an Antoninianus; I shall show the last for nearly a...
Oh, yes! That IS a beauty!
Won this one today at auction for a good price. One doesn't come across this one every day. It's an obverse and reverse die-match to the specimen...
Agree and this reflects how the two terms are used in actual practice and the terms are not synonymous.
Here's a related coin with what might have been taken for a number but is intended as a letter: [ATTACH] Note the reverse inscription reads...
That lion is cool!
I love it! You are justifiably proud to have it in your collection. I only have one true Pegasus: [ATTACH] Caligula, AD 37-41. Roman provincial Æ...
The snake on her helmet may be Skylla, the snake-bodied sea monster frequently depicted as adorning her helmet, as on this beyond-my-budget...
Here's my "budget" example. Neither smoothed nor tooled. Barely identifiable, actually. [ATTACH]
The line is an orthographic convention to let the Roman reader know it was to be taken as a number, not a letter of a word -- i.e. that it was COS...
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