There is also a variation that looks like a rocky nest from Rome, though rare. You should remember it, you took the picture. [ATTACH]
scratches do not mean damnatio memoriae and Vaballathus was never given this treatment anyway as it was reserved for people that had brought...
I don't think it is damnatio memoriae...it's more likely accidental damage
One reason might be that Constantine's half sister Constantia was married to Licinius. Shortly after this incident, Constantine even issued a rare...
Yes, I messaged the seller and explained why the lot had sold for so much...of course, if it had been I.D.'ed prior to listing, he would have...
there were at least two-- [ATTACH]
Yes, it is probably the best coin I have ever "discovered" "Discovered" is in quotes, as I was not the only one that noticed this coin. Not...
The buyer for the museum (who has bought a few coins from me) heard that I had this coin. I posted about it on my LRB forum and there were topics...
Yes, I won it; but I only wanted this coin to catalogue and examine in hand. I was glad, though, to be the intermediary for the museum acquisition.
there are undoubtedly more great finds out there...this one came from an otherwise uninteresting lot from eBay.
I just made a page for this previously unrecorded bronze coin for Constantine I http://www.constantinethegreatcoins.com/VICTORIA/ feel free to...
most definitely Constantine, per our primary source on this- Eusebius "At the same time coins were struck portraying the Blessed One on the...
Yes, it is Constantius II
It looks like Levon III http://www.forumancientcoins.com/armeniannumismatics/levon3k5.htm
at the bottom of the home page to the far right is a contact link home page https://www.vcoins.com/en/Default.aspx contact form...
Though it does not talk about campgates, there is a book by Cullen Murphy that has a chapter called "The Borders" - Are We Rome? The Fall of an...
[ATTACH] a campgate from Valentinian III Valentinian III A.D. 425-455 11mm 1.1gm D N VALEN AVG; pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust...
Lordship of Tyre - John of Montfort (1270-1283) copper pougeoise struck at Tyre, depicting a temple, possibly the cathedral of Tyre. Legends + Ioh...
it might depend on what languages you can read, but here is good bibliography- http://www.gallic-empire.com/literatur.htm a good history, that is...
Yes, which is why I wrote "I have seen a few examples of mules for campgates from this mint. Below is another Constantine II." if it was not...
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