Nice catch, not usually my cup of tea but a cool coin!
Well, I am Michael from Berkeley, CA. I basically advise start-ups these days on a part-time basis. I basically take a little equity in exchange...
Technically as Doug said other tetrarchs issued tetradrachms up to the point when their issue was discontinued and the striking of folles started,...
Nice coin and if it was cheap then it is doubly nice!
Diocletian and Maximian were the last rulers to strike billon tetradrachms of Alexandria. So in a sad way, the monetary reforms they enacted ended...
Nice coins @randygeki I think I need some more FEL TEMP REPARATIO's. Wait a minute, I have 81 of them! (From my uncleaned hoard days). The first...
I'd love to have one of those double sestertii!
When I was a kid we went to see the Tut exhibit in San Francisco, pretty cool! And around the time of Star Wars, too. Revisited again at the Cairo...
Marcus Cassianius Latinius Postumus was a Roman commander of provincial origin who ruled as emperor in the west. The Roman army in Gaul threw off...
Here's another campgate type (Constantine) [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Some silvering left...
I have to say that's a real nice coin, and if especially rare then you found a gem in your lot. I got a Macrianus in an uncleaned lot, somebody...
$18.50 is a great deal. $795 and I would have said you were a sucker indeed. But the beauty, and price, is in the eye of the beholder. I am...
Thanks for the interesting story. Provides a numismatic angle on the battle and the end of Trajan Decius' reign.
Thanks Ken! I will check it out.
Hello Folks. This Byzantine coin came in an uncleaned hoard lot I got last year. Mainly LRB with a few outliers thrown in. This is one of them....
I've got one Quintillus in my collection. Pretty worn but the legend is just legible.
Nice one of Valerian. Congrats on the score @Mat !
Cool coin. Certainly looks authentic. By this time Caracalla's time was running out and he was assassinated as he went to relieve himself off to...
I've got a denarius of Severus but it came from an uncleaned hoard of LRB and it is green with a few highlights of silver. (Not something worth...
Love the write-up and nice coins!
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