I'm such a senex caecilius (old blind man) that I take off my glasses and hold the coin about 4 inches from my eyes and I can see in great detail.
Cool!! I love the Janus head Republican and the Macrinus from Parium.
Seventeen types were issued during Valerian's and Gallienus' joint reign which presented Gallienus as restitutor (restorer). Out of these 17...
Just stay away from those Gordy and Tranquillina marriage commemoratives. They're MINE! ALL MINE!!! [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
Here's one from Nicomedia that seems a bit different from the OP's series 2 and 3 examples, above. Here, Helena is wearing a band-like diadem...
PCGS experts identify this as tooled, re-tooled, hole filled and artificial patina applied. Read about it here. [ATTACH]
I think Z P is a collector who consigned his/her coins to Roma Numismatics and wants to preserve some anonymity. This practice is not unusual.
These denarii of Plotina and Matidia don't look like the real deal to me! Look like modern struck forgeries. Too bad, too, because the exhibit of...
Here's a dupondius of his mother. It's harder on coins of women from this period to tell an as from a dupondius because there is no equivalent of...
Archaeologists hypothesize they may have discovered the 3rd-4th century AD mint of the Ancient Roman city of Serdica, the predecessor of today’s...
Sixty-two characters, if you count the denomination, E, in the field: [ATTACH] Gordian III, AD 238-244, and Tranquillina, AD 241-244. Roman...
Man, that one truly is [MEDIA] This is the bluest patina in my collection, and it's only on the reverse: [ATTACH] Gordian III, AD 238-244,...
I don't know how interesting these two humble examples are, but they're all I've got -- two different reverse inscriptions. [ATTACH] Fausta, AD...
I like this reverse type. My examples, however, aren't exactly FDC: [ATTACH] Otacilia Severa, AD 244-249. Roman AR Antoninianus, 2.90 g, 21.4...
Otacilia Severa was the mother of Philip II: [ATTACH] Herennia Etruscilla was the mother of Herennius Etruscus and Hostilian. This coin...
Nice tet!! I only have an antoninianus: [ATTACH] Vabalathus, AD 270-272 and Aurelian, AD 270-275. Roman billon antoninianus, 3.58 gm, 20.4 mm, 5...
As promised, here are some coins celebrating the fabulous fecundity of Faustina II. She is thought to have had 12 or 13 children: Here's a...
Nice!!!
The mother of all Roman mothers, of course, was the very fertile Faustina II. When I get back to my computer, I'll post some Faustina childbirth...
I chose the term, knowing that it still had this popular meaning though biologically obsolete, for the sake of alliteration.
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