Tragic, @TypeCoin971793 . I'm so sorry. This one wasn't as much of a monetary loss, but sad nonetheless. This Trebonius Gallus Antoninianus...
I have such a CD with most of the BMC Greek volumes -- from the 19th century and long out of copyright and in the public domain. While all of them...
@TypeCoin971793 -- You did well! Those are nice coins for that price.
New Question 1: If you could go through a bin of random ancient coins, what would be an acceptable price per item? That's a hard question to...
The only Sicilian coin in my whole collection: [ATTACH] Philistis, wife of Hieron II. Greek AR 5 litrae. Syracuse 270-230 BCE, 4.46 gm, 18.1 mm....
I have no idea how that happened. The German word for beer is Bier.
Thanks!
It looks like the die-engraver got carried away with adding the cross-bars to the E and A's in the exergue and added one to the V, too, making it...
I have a few of these VRBS ROMA types of Constantine and was looking on Amazon to see if there has been a monograph written about them. I was...
There are also smaller coins depicting her, issued by her three grandchildren after Constantine's death. Helena had been dead for about 8 years...
I got you all beat! EXTREMELY RARE! BUY IT NOW, only $100,000,000,000! [ATTACH] God, Eve, and Adam. Edenic AE 24.6 mm, 8.60 g. Eden mint, 5509...
@TIF -- you make coin collecting fun! I'm so glad to have you here. What a fun look back on your posts over the years!
Antoninus Pius for sure, an AE as.
Interesting -- AMNG II notes in the introduction to the coins of Domna from this city (just below her name) the following (my translation from...
Thanks for looking! I really appreciate it.
A new acquisition. I can find AMNG II (Strack) 502 at acsearchinfo and CNG's archives listed also as Varbanov 297, but they have different breaks...
That certainly is an odd assortment.
Nice job on the identification! I think you have attributed it correctly. Here's an early provincial that comes with a wide variety of obverse...
Marcus Aurelius Carus was more secure in his physical appearance than his distant predecessor, Otho, and didn't feel the need for a toupee or much...
Oh, I forgot this one, with a very boring three horizontal dots in the pediment: [ATTACH] Gallienus, AD 253-268. Roman billon antoninianus, 2.39...
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