Fine coin @Shrews1994 !
Great work @Deacon Ray ! Happy Holidays to you and yours. Also, remember that after today the days will be getting longer and longer.
I don't have Tacitus or Florian yet, so I have to sit on the sidelines for a bit.
Here's my Tranquillina...with leaping ram above Tyche's head. Mesopotamia, Singara (easternmost mint in the Empire). The city was lost to the...
Great Erin! That Deacon Ray guy is very nice. Merry Christmas and Happy New Years. Congrats on the new coin.
That's the thing about sentiments expressed on coins...poke around and find that the opposite is probably true. Just think of those VICTORIA AVGG...
Nice Severus. Pretty nice toning...a fine coin for your last of 2018.
Welcome Marc! I collect mostly Roman Imperial with some Byzantine coins thrown in. My main goal is getting a coin of each emperor til the reign...
Here's a much better Aurelian/Vabalathus: Roman and Palmyrene Empires Billon Antoninianus, 20mm, 3.7g Antioch mint, 5th officina, AD 270-271...
Thanks @Andres2 - I think your second coin's reverse is the same as mine, just hard to identify on my example.
Here's my lam-o Aurelian from an uncleaned hoard. The flan is bent (oddly) and it is in pretty poor condition, but let's move on, shall we?...
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Here is a link that is fairly exhaustive on the topic of whether or not Phillip was a Christian, however it is still inconclusive to doubtful....
Supposedly Otacilia Severa was a closet Christian. I remember reading about this and I believe the historian was a Syrian who wrote several...
Looks like we are up to Aurelian after the defeat of Tetricus I and II - end of the Gallic Empire? (Bump)
I agree that certain specific extremely rare and high value pieces should be in museums, so long as they are prominently displayed. The Stanford...
Beautiful coins @Ancient Aussie - thanks for sharing.
Great coins @SeptimusT - I love the Egyptian ones, especially Isis with the infant Horus, some great mythology there...
Here's my Tetricus II... [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Gotta admit that the reverse is pretty crude...not a barbaric copy but definitely close...
great coins @Nap ! The Offa one speaks to me. I only have a handful of Medieval coins, mostly Crusader states in the Middle East - Bohemund,...
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