That one from Phokaia is NICE!! And it IS an odd portrait style for Augustus. I have one of those common ones from Philippi, too. It's one of...
I've long wanted one of these Roman provincials from Amphipolis with the Artemis Tauropolos reverse types and I had the opportunity to pick up one...
Don't worry about me -- The bidding went out of my league SEVERAL HUNDRED EUROS ago! It certainly has garnered a lot of collector interest, I must...
DON'T attempt to clean that Hadrian! Leave it AS IS!
Nice coins! I like the Faustina I middle bronze with Vesta. I don't have that particular coin in my collection, but I do have the sestertius...
The Hadrian dupondius is probably RIC 973; BMC 1374; Strack (Hadrian) 628. Here's the specimen in the British Museum: [ATTACH]
The EID MAR repro is worth less than the price of a hamburger at a fast food restaurant such as McDonalds. Really.
Hadrian denarii are so common and inexpensive, it may very well turn out to be genuine.
Good detective work, but the reverse legend "Η ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛ ..." can indicate any of many cities, not just the city of Metropolis, for it's a title...
Since the real ones cost five- to six-figures, I bought this replica one: [ATTACH]
Lovely dupondius, David! I have only one dupondius with a FELICITAS reverse and that's this one of Faustina II issued by her father, Antoninus...
All very nice! I -- no surprise -- have no examples of these coins from Syracuse. But that doesn't mean I don't have any hippocampi! They were...
Fun! What city minted that one?
Uncommonly nice examples for the time-period. That Severina is very desirable! Here are some late tets: [ATTACH] Diocletian, AD 284-305. Roman...
It is nice, but it's not mine. Your VRBS ROMA has a lot of eye-appeal!
The history of the relationship between Rome and the wolf goes back to the very beginning of the new city. The myth of the she-wolf that suckled...
Actually, I don't QUITE have the whole family. There were two denominations struck for Philip I's father, Julius Marinus, at Philippopolis in...
Talk about learning the hard way!
Nice one, @Adam95 ! You'll have to read more about him. The whole family: Philip I: [ATTACH] Wife Otacilia Severa: [ATTACH] Son Philip II...
Some sources state this was struck in Rome for use in Syria, some that it was struck in Antioch. [ATTACH] Trajan. A.D. 98-117. Roman orichalcum...
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