Before the visit to the plastic surgeon: [ATTACH]
It's a fun exercise to identify which dies were used to strike the coin. Woodward's article is still considered the definitive work on this,...
Another obverse die match between two coins in my collection but with different reverses. Triassaria from Marcianopolis: [ATTACH] Julia Domna, AD...
I'm afraid I don't have access to Varbanov, but I like that coin and it's from a mint one does not often come across. Great addition to your...
I collect Roman provincial coins with as much zeal as imperial issues and I have found die-matches to at least half of my provincial issues, but...
If you study Roman Imperial coinage, particularly of the third century, you owe a lot to Giard, one of the preeminent French numismatists of the...
[ATTACH] How'd I forget this one? You started off the thread with a bronze of Gordian III, too! I had forgotten about this example until I posted...
Thank you so much! Years ago I read The Golden Ass, but it was before I was aware of this coin type and its iconography. Really interesting...
Lovely toning on that one and it IS an unusually well-struck reverse. SCORE! Gordy party!! [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
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Look what they have at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston! It's Cybele riding on a lion! [ATTACH]
The article wasn't about the Roman empire being multicultural -- everyone knows that -- but that Roman Britain was, and this represents a paradigm...
See, for example, the rim of dots on this 26.6 mm middle bronze: [ATTACH]
I have several dozen bronze coins of Faustina I. The middle bronzes really are only 26 mm or so. I suspect it was just struck on a lightweight...
"Our knowledge about the people who lived in Roman Britain has undergone a sea change over the past decade. New research has rubbished our...
Gorgeous denarii, @David Atherton , and I was hoping you'd share them! Thanks!
Well, if you have to cast the flans anyway in order to strike them ... @TypeCoin971793 has an example that shows how it was done: [ATTACH]
I have heard that as well. Of course, it's Kevin in flan quality control who is responsible.
Nice!! 29 mm? That's sestertius-sized! And, as you can see from many of the above photos, the flans were cast before striking and what you see is...
Oh yes, the Antonine dynasty had its share of squarish flans: [ATTACH] Sestertius of Lucilla, IVNONI LVCINAE [ATTACH] Middle bronze of...
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