here's a Constantine II with an open hand that sold last year on eBay [ATTACH]
Yes, a hand raised is certainly not peculiar to Constantine, but I find it interesting when you can actually see the gesture of the hand and make...
[ATTACH] This coin has an obverse and reverse that has figures with hands raised, but they are not waving. The Sol on reverse is so small the...
Your coin has an H in the left field of the reverse, but I can't make out the mintmark. R✶T is RIC VI Rome 202a and rated as common. RBT is RIC...
Maybe overpriced, it's all opinion. For you to compare the price you paid for your coin versus this one for sale does not have much bearing if...
Actually I was completely wrong in my initial thoughts on that topic. If I had bothered to look in some references, I would have seen examples --...
Here is an altered coin of Decentius from Lyon. [ATTACH] Not surprisingly, since Magnentius and Decentius lost, the bust and name is mostly...
Tacitus (who wrote Germania in the first century A.D.) said that the Germanic tribes, “value gold and silver for their use in commerce, and are...
Here is a recent auction win that I think is pretty interesting. It is an unofficial FEL TEMP overstruck on a posthumous issue of Constantine I....
The second coin, of Gordian, has to be a fake because of the reverse IVNO REGINA; as Emperors never used this, except for Claudius II (RIC V...
his name was Titus Flavius Vespasianus
they were minted for about 10 years. I have a page about these coins-- http://www.constantinethegreatcoins.com/comm/
VRBS ROMA coins also have a similar bust, lacking the spear over shoulder and non laureate helmet; but I am partial to Constantinopolis coins, so...
We don't know the actual name...follis is old school, newer trend is nummus. H is not a possibility for your workshop. Siscia only used 5...
It looks like the last 2 letters of the mintmark are TS; which would have to be Thessalonica...like SMTS. This is not in RIC for Julian II, though...
[ATTACH] Maximianus A.D. 297- 298 30x31mm 9.9gm IMP MAXIMIANVS P F AVG; laureate head right. FELIX ADVENT AVGG NN; Africa standing left,...
Deciding on whether a coin is official or unofficial is sometimes arbitrary and often based on a "gut" feeling. Pierre Bastien wrote that some of...
I believe it is Dionysos pouring wine out of a jug, instead of a patera.
It's a Julian II FEL TEMP REPARATIO horseman. Your picture is too blurry for me to be sure of the mint.
It will be tough to near impossible to ID. I seem to be able to make out that the bust is helmeted and it looks like it has an imperial mantle,...
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