I think die studies can help assign an upper limit for mintage figures. For example, there are 18 obverse and 36 reverse dies known for the...
Could be PROVI AVG: [ATTACH] RIC 580; Cohen 854; Gobl 1461
Perhaps this one: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Agree.
Antoninianus of Gallienus. Reverse type? Perhaps Annona or Ceres standing left, holding grain ears and torch. Perhaps Providentia standing left,...
I'm mostly using microsoft office. I sometimes use paint or the other default program that came with Windows 10. Here's what I did to @ancient...
Nice tet! As for the set-up, I put down a piece of matte white cardboard for the background in a sunny area of the kitchen table. Then I put a...
I'm photographing them with my phone against a plain white background, but e-mailing them to myself, downloading them to my computer and then...
Most of my Gallienus collection languishes unphotographed. It's a gorgeous, sunny afternoon and I decided to photograph a few with my cell phone...
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That Samnium is a superb example of the type!
Gorgeous examples, @TIF , which nicely illustrate some of the republican issues I note in my OP but of which I have none in my own collection.
I, too, am very curious as well. That's also the way it's spelled on the civil war denarii from two centuries previously, which bear the...
Vulcan -- the Roman version of the Greek Ἥφαιστος (Hēphaistos) -- was the the god of fire, volcanoes, and of smiths. The festival of Vulcan, the...
Lovely coin, @zumbly ! And interesting info on the Lokrian mode, @gsimonel .
Here's a die-clash of Julia Maesa: [ATTACH]
The bottom is a die-clash.
Ceres, the Roman goddess of of agricultural fertility (especially of grain crops) and motherly relationships, was so important to Roman society...
Your obverse inscription is type 1 in RIC: [ATTACH] And the corresponding coin is RIC 284, from the Antioch (Asia) mint: [ATTACH] RIC...
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