Yes. There was a flurry of "DN" titles on coin obverses from 317 when the three Caesars (Licinius II, Crispus, and Constantine II) were promoted....
Late Roman AE coins of the mid fourth century and later commonly have obverse legend which begins with the title "DN" for "Dominus Noster" ("Our...
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I think most sestertii turn dark like those. Some have a lovely green patina and that deserves a premium, because, as you can see from those and...
Byzantine anonymous folles were issued from 970 to c. 1118. There have been many threads about them and this is one web site about them:...
I am a book lover and somehow don't have that one, even though I wrote web pages on Byzantine copper: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Byz/ A little...
We on CT do know know enough about the "collection" to know if it is a serious collection assembled with significant expertise and expense, or...
This coin of Aurelian, 270-275, has a golden tone: [ATTACH] The coin looks just like its photo on my screen.
Nevertheless, Crispus didn't last long. [ATTACH] Crispus, 317-326. PRINCIPIA IVVENTVTIS AQT 21-20 mm. 3.33 grams RIC Aquileia 9 (but emperor has...
I like tetrarchal folles: [ATTACH] 30-27 mm. 8.75 grams. Galerius as Caesar at Rome, c.302-3 MAXIMIAVS NOB CAES SACRA MON VRB AVGG ET CAESS NN...
Sear 844 of Heraclius from Seleucia can look like this: [ATTACH] 31 mm. 10.51 grams. Year 7. The type is usually very poorly struck.
[ATTACH] Here is mine. 20 mm. 3.22 grams. RIC 81 "R, third issue" July - Dec. 240. $30 on eBay in 2001.
There is a very attractive coin exhibition of Islamic coins at the art museum of Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. For the duration of the...
On this page: https://www.icollector.com/Antique-Rare-Coin-Free-Shipping_as73255 the coins are replicas. That is a very bad recommendation for...
In agreement with you, I think it is a regular issue of Antioch. Those of us who spend years paying attention to coins of a particular sort, say,...
Justinian issued reformed (facing bust) folles in years 12 through 39 (538/9 - 565). Constantinople only minted folles until year 37, Nicomedia...
@Terence Cheesman showed an Antoninus Pius AE with a thunderbolt design. Here is a denarius: [ATTACH] Denarius. 18 mm. 3.08 grams. PROVIDENTIAE...
In the 1970's I had a similar bottle, a bit shorter. One day I accidentally knocked it off its foot-high stand and when it hit the table it...
Oliver Hoover's blog about this: http://numismatics.org/pocketchange/yemen/
Wow! What a difference the new pictures make. The odd rim at 7:00-10:00 in the original obverse picture is gone. The "pit" in the nose is seems...
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