Yes, I see that. Quite possible.
A rose with a countermark on the reverse? Maybe Rhodes?
I'm sorry that happened, @Bing . Alfred at Agora isn't very organized. I still have a bad taste in my mouth after I won this coin at Agora's...
Despite the differences in metallurgy, these Severan antoniniani ... [ATTACH] [ATTACH] ... are fundamentally the same coin as these antoniniani...
My scarcest Claudius II: [ATTACH] Claudius II, AD 268-270. Roman silvered billon antoninianus, 3.66 g, 19.1 mm. Siscia, issue 1, AD 268. Obv:...
That's because just about every king's wife was also his sister and everyone was named Antiochus or Laodice.
Lovely display! I only have a few Seleukids: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Here's a typical Valerian: [ATTACH]
That's cool! I learned a new word and googled it. I found this: [MEDIA]
The silver content was much higher during the joint reign of Valerian I and Gallienus than it was 10 years later during Gallienus' sole rule. This...
I have no reason to think it isn't genuine; it's just been harshly chemically cleaned. You might be interested in this write-up I did a few months...
Interestingly, the version of this coin with COSII in the exergue is not in the British Museum collection. It's listed as a footnote to BMCRE 4,...
Wow! You don't run across Sicilian Byzantine coins every day and certainly not with a provenance like this! I only have eastern ones, like this...
[ATTACH] Gordian III, AD 238-244. Roman provincial Æ tetrassarion, 9.53 g, 24.2 mm, 1 h. Thrace, Hadrianopolis, AD 238-244. Obv: AVT K M ANT...
Artemis (Roman Diana) was a daughter of Zeus and the Titaness Leto and the twin-sister of Apollo. Her mother was hounded by Zeus' jealous wife...
That's lovely! There are two sestertii featuring Fecunditas on the coins of Faustina II. Here are the examples from my collection. My humbler...
I take photos as jpeg files, crop them to size and then use PowerPoint to merge them into one photo, save the PowerPoint slide as a jpeg file and...
Great post, @lrbguy ! I have only a single lifetime issue of Faustina I among my 44 examples of her coins: [ATTACH] Faustina Senior, AD 139-141....
I love how clearly Ceres is rendered as wearing a crown of grain ears.
More likely Cybele, I think. [ATTACH]
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