727a has the portrait facing right; 727b has it facing left [ATTACH]
That's a normal flan. Jere M. Wickens, in his essay, "The Production of Ancient Coins," written for Bearers of Meaning: The Otillia Buerger...
Here's a sestertius with a real acromegalic portrait: [ATTACH]
Nice! I have the corresponding denarius: [ATTACH]
That dot on the reverse in the geometric center of the design is surely caused by the point of the compass used to lay out the design.
Related to Felicitas is Laetitia and this Laetitia makes me smile! The goddess just looks so ... so ... cute! [ATTACH]
That's a very interesting coin, @dougsmit . It must have some heft in hand!
Welcome to the ancients forum, @papersplz ! That's a nice coin! I like the portrait style from the middle portion of his reign: [ATTACH] Marcus...
Alex III: [ATTACH] Cleo VII: [ATTACH]
You have Roman coins depicting soldiers carrying the severed heads of their enemies but a token depicting people having sex is somehow more offensive?
Not worth much at all, but it's still cool!
I like those Viminacium bronzes!
Looks like the GLOR-IA EXERC-ITVS reverse type of the mid fourth century.
Inside the temple of Apollo at Daphne, just outside Antioch, a statue of Apollo seated on the omphalos at Delphi and facing left was an extremely...
They are bronze coins of the Byzantine empire of the follis denomination. The big M is the Greek number 40 and there were 40 nummi in a follis.
Photos can really overemphasize scratching. This one, for example, looks really nice in-hand; the photo, though, makes it look like Marciana was...
Sounds like it's going to be the anti-I, Claudius.
Post anything you feel is relevant! Despite having 25 denarii of Faustina II, I didn't have this particular one. So, when the opportunity to buy...
Nice Nervas, everyone! I rephotographed mine in natural sunlight against a black background. I think it's an improvement. [ATTACH] Nerva, AD...
My latest Marcus: [ATTACH] Marcus Aurelius, AD 161-180 Roman AR denarius; 3.53 g, 17.4 mm, 1 h Rome, AD 169 Obv: M ANTONINVS AVG TR P XXIII,...
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