A new purchase. RIC ii (p. 290) comments on the "brass as" denomination: "The revival of the orichalcum as, which had been introduced by Nero and...
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Very nice, @maridvnvm ! I don't have an Aesculapius reverse type of Aurelian to share. The closest I have chronologically are a couple of...
I have two Alexandrian tets of Nero, both dual-portrait coins with a wife: [ATTACH] Nero and Claudia Octavia. Roman provincial billon...
It's hard to find something perfect at an affordable price. This one is well-centered and has a nice obverse (with a horn) but was struck with a...
Not every die from Didius Julianus and his family used dots, though some did. You can read Woodward's die study here:...
I concur. Siscia and Cyzicus are more than 1300 km apart and it's weird the coins are so similar. I wondered myself at perhaps an engraving error...
Here's my Juli Titi, apparently without dots: [ATTACH] Dotless Domitian: [ATTACH] Manlia Scantilla with dots: [ATTACH]...
Here's the hand of God coming down to crown Eudoxia: [ATTACH] Eudoxia, AD 395-404. Roman billon Æ 4 reduced centenionalis, 1.94 g, 14.9 mm....
I agree workmanship was generally good in Trajan's time. During the reign of Gallienus? Well, not so much! [ATTACH]
I agree, and the new MER/RIC is the most complete database there is for coins of Aurelian. Nonetheless, one occasionally finds coins which are not...
This is every coin of Aurelian with this reverse in the MER/RIC database.
It must be Siscia, then. I have edited the original post to reflect this. The exergue contains nothing but S* - an S and a star.
I decided to reevaluate some of my less-attractive Aurelian coins as a result of all the recent Aurelian-related posts on this forum of late. I...
Here's my silvered ORIENS AVG antoninianus of Aurelian. [ATTACH] Aurelian AD 270-275. Roman silvered billon Antoninianus, 3.60 gm, 21.7 mm, 6...
Some of my more attractive Aurelian coins. I enjoy looking at the comically distorted portraits of the emperor, with long necks, bull-necks, and...
This sestertius of Faustina II is being offered at auction by a major European auction firm without mention of any tooling. However, I can't...
Being perpetually virginal, childbirth isn't an issue for Artemis.
What's a war without a god of war? [ATTACH] Trajan, AD 98-117. Roman AR denarius, 2.92 gm, 20.1 mm, 7 h. Rome, AD 114-117. Obv: IMP CAES NER...
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