Three coins of Marcianopolis struck with the same obverse die but with different reverse types entirely: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Post...
Just acquired a new one for my collection! [ATTACH] Faustina I, AD 138-141. Roman AR Denarius, 3.40 g, 16.7 mm, 6 h. Rome, AD 147-161. Obv:...
The most interesting of my many GLORIA EXERCITVS types: [ATTACH] Constantius II, Caesar AD 324-337. Roman billon reduced centenionalis, 2.06 g,...
Two issues: 1. Coins only 500 years old are generally considered modern. 2. For truly ancient coins, the answer is complex and it depends on...
PVDICITIA seated with some serious veil-pulling action: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Maybe Astarte is wearing a bulky headdress as on this terracotta statue of her from Susa, Middle Elamite period, 1150-1100 BC. Now in The Louvre:...
Nice! That's well-centered and with full legends!
Are those the legs of a tripod? If so, it may be oriented 180 degrees around: [ATTACH]
Gorgeous! This Aurelian ORIENS AVG is quite common -- but not commonly encountered this nice: [ATTACH]
I think this article discusses your coin but doesn't attribute it to a reference: http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v05n42a11.html
Thank you for the kind words! I'm glad you find the subject matter as interesting as I do.
Welcome to the dark side, @Lawtoad ! You'll enjoy it here. The ancients folks are a friendly bunch. I like your coin. It's what we call a...
Cool!!
I'll contribute my Severan Julias: Julia Domna: [ATTACH] Her sister, Julia Maesa: [ATTACH] Julia Maesa's daughter, Julia Soaemias: [ATTACH]...
Aren't those fascinating? And it's very interesting to think a medical condition may have been responsible for the change in the hairstyle we see...
Common denarii from the first and second centuries AD are a good choice. They often depict people who are extremely famous, such as Vespasian:...
Toward the end of Severus' reign and in the early part of Caracalla's stint on the throne, Julia Domna adopted a different style, perhaps...
Julia Domna's hairstyle was rather consistent for the first dozen years or so of her reign, then began to change shortly before her husband's...
Thanks so much, I really appreciate it. This seems clearly to be a coin of Cyzicus, but the S is either an engraving error or an artifact of...
This was found in a marble sarcophagus with the skeleton of a girl, on the Via Valeria in Tivoli. It was apparently the child's toy.
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