Are you going to enlighten us about the difference?
I agree there are signs it is a modern fake. The obverse shows casting pits and a casting seam on the left edge. If those are actually on the coin...
Here is a remarkable facing quadriga: [ATTACH] Maximinus II, 305-313 24 mm. 8.42 grams. MAXIMINVS NOB CAES/SOLI INVICTAE Struck as Caesar, May...
Thank you, @svessien ! That is an excellent site. It has some good links that I didn't notice at first. For example, click on "Coins" and then on...
Here is a Claudius II VIRTVS AVG. It is like the one of @Shea19 above. [ATTACH] 20 mm. 3.05 grams. I got it because of the silvering, which is...
Yes, the OP coin is a beauty of great interest and rarity--well worth a bidding war.
The book "Byzantine Coins" by Grierson is a gold mine of information. Not only does it have good B&W photographs of 1527 types on 95 plates, it...
I got this for its mintmark: [ATTACH] Justinian, 527-565. Sear 222 40 nummia 35 mm. 19.1 grams. mm THUP Year XXXI = 31 = 557/8, at Antioch,...
Here is an AE type set for Gratian: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ricix/Gratian.html Not the rarest, but the most interesting AE type for Gratian...
Give it to someone who can use it to remove fingernail polish. Fingernail polish remover is usually just acetone.
Grades, and in particular NGC grades, strike numbers, and surface numbers are a way to communicate something about coins that I call "condition,"...
Until 970 Byzantine emperors struck copper coins in their own names. Then, in AD 970 the pious emperor John I Tzimisces make a remarkable change...
Everyone knows that Geta was not "master of the world." The real master of the world was [ATTACH] Didius Julianus! (for 66 days in 193) RECTOR...
As you can see from the coins above, coins of Theodore Comnenus Ducas from the Empire of Thessalonica are not usually in good condition. This coin...
If you like reverses related to historical events, the reign of Antoninus Pius (138-161) does not have as many as other second-century emperors,...
I found this these two cut-down chi-rhos at an English coin fair in 1988. The first is 11 mm and identifiable by emperor and mint! [ATTACH] 1.06...
Panticapaeum (also spelled with a "K" for "C" or "paion" for "paeum), in the north Black Sea region, stuck some very artistic coins in the 4th...
The trial is a great and important story of corruption tolerated by senators because they benefited by bribery or hoped to benefit by that same...
A hole through a Republican denarius was one way the ancients condemned a coin as a counterfeit. Many fourrees have holes through them. Do we see...
It is sad when two genuine coins that you can't tell apart have much different values. Is that the road down which US-coin collectors have chosen...
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