it's very brassy, like it was recently cleaned.
The reverse of this coin was supposed to be a Chi-Rho between two stars; but the engraver messed up a bit and the left star is more of a Chi-Rho....
Those type of posts can easily become unwieldy, jumbled messes...it's always best to post just one ID request per post.
"Basically, everyone alive in the ninth century who left descendants is the ancestor of every living European today, including Charlemagne, Drogo,...
Hercules was very popular though--very much a "man of the people", since he was half man.
it's an unofficial issue...a barb, copying a Constantine I VLPP from Siscia http://www.constantinethegreatcoins.com/barb2/
Yes, Hercules was half-god, so lower in the pantheon than Jupiter. I don't know whether or not Diocletian assigned Maximianus to Hercules; but...
Styles change...a few years later, beards are out. Plus this is Diocletian's Tetrarchy, his "vision"...his style.
The Tetrarchic portraits are all military in nature, Diocletian was a barracks Emperor, --so strong, thick necked men with close cropped hair and...
from the first Tetrarchy, some FELIX ADVENT reverses from issue v -- [ATTACH] Diocletian A.D. 297- 298 27x29mm 8.2gm IMP DIOCLETIANVS P F...
likely some sort of grain
I posted a similar Galerius in my first post-- Carthage 30b/32b [ATTACH]
A coin I sold, before deciding to collect Carthage by RIC number. One of many regrets in my life. :banghead: [ATTACH]
congrats. here is a die match I saw for sale a few years ago [ATTACH] and another one that belongs to forum member Hamilcar Barca [ATTACH]
Yes, they are fairly rare. This is my second example that I bought as an upgrade; but I plan on keeping both.
The ragged flan is a distinctive aspect of Carthage folles-- a result of the way that they were cast.
The mint in Carthage opened to fund the Roman campaign against the Quinquegentiani (People of the Five Tribes) a group of Berbers that rebelled...
I am looking for a Diocletian GENIO from Alexandria to finish my set of coins issued by Domitius Domitianus...
I just got a Constantine I from London [ATTACH] ex-Morris in a slab...about to be ex-slab also. this one arrived two weeks ago [ATTACH]...
an educational book-- Numismatic Forgery by Charles M. Larson [ATTACH]
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