Thank you @dougsmit and @EDDOP for your insight. So, perhaps the Numerian CLEMENTIA TEMP(ORVM) issue is intended to be a message to the troops...
What's the backstory behind this reverse design? I don't know as much as I would like to know about the iconography on the reverse of this coin...
Yep, I like that coiffure, too. [ATTACH]
Gordy!! [ATTACH]
The first thing I thought when I read this was "Sandoz? The drug company?" And that is apparently the case. There is another Sandoz-associated...
I think I see ... INOCAV ... from the 1:00 to the 4:00 position on the obverse. This would be consistent with Elagabalus, whose inscription would...
Love that tetradrachm! Here are some coins of the imperial couple from my collection: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I even have a li'l Greek lion! [ATTACH] Mysia, Kyzikos (c.480 BC) AR Trihemiobol, 10 mm, 1.16 g Obv: Forepart of boar left ; Tunny upward...
Oooooh! TONING!! Lovely coin!
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RIC is out of date and incomplete and Göbl reflects the most recent numismatic scholarship and is far more complete. Unfortunately, there isn't...
One fun, popular, and easily-obtained set in the Roman series is of the so-called five good emperors. I recently came across Emanuelle Degli...
Corinth, perhaps? Like this one from my collection? [ATTACH] Plautilla, AD 202-205 Roman provincial AE 24.4 mm, 5.87 g Peloponnesus, Corinth,...
Plautilla, perhaps.
No word on what Magnia Urbica thought of all this. [ATTACH]
But that's what's so fun about it! But you have to admit it's not as juicy as 2 Samuel 11 when it comes to rulers sleeping with their officers' wives.
Those aren't estimates -- they are minimum bids.
The history of the world might have been different had Carinus been able to keep it in his toga. Carinus, the elder son of Carus and brother of...
I put in my bids! Hope I'm successful!
Nice! I have one from Viminacium, too! [ATTACH]
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