Welcome! We appreciate the introduction. This forum has a great search engine. Here is a thread on elephants on coins:...
I think it is a modern reproduction.
Mostly I handwrite flip inserts, but when I use computer-printed ones I have a template (just a word processing table with cells the right size)...
Constantius Chlorus had ants minted in his name. Constantius II did not. Ants were discontinued c. 294, not long after Constantius became Caesar...
If you walk up the Palatine hill there is an overlook high above the Forum. You can see @Julius Germanicus's building from there: [ATTACH] The...
Doug is right (of course). For more about this, see my page on retirement issues: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/tetrarchy/retirement.html Here is...
John III of Nicaea brought the "Empire of Thessalonica" to an end in 1246. Here is one of his coins: [ATTACH] John III, Ducas, called Vatatzes....
I bought an unidentified Byzantine trachy (cup-shaped coin) on eBay. Like many late Byzantine trachy, the flan has problems. It is bent and has a...
I wrote a short article about the type here: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/CON/CONSTANTINOPOLIS.html Later I expanded it greatly here:...
The VRBS ROMA is an ancient imitation. They are common from England. There are a few on my site about imitations....
Congratulations! That is thrilling! Give our regards to your wife, who did the hard work.
VOT XX refers to vows taken for 20 years of reign. Usually such coins are minted about 10 years into the reign, when the initial vows for ten...
Gordian III was about 13 years old when he became emperor in 238. Sometimes he really does look young. This coin is from 240, when he was about 15...
I have a web page with a type set for Aelia Flaccilla: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ricix/AeliaFlaccilla.html She only minted three types (not...
Thank you for the information. I got some coins from that collection and I am pleased to know about "The Morris Collection."
The three on the left are wonderful. Left-to-right they have fabulous pictures of spectacular coins a scholarly nearly up-to-date survey of...
The boy-riding-dolphin type of Taras (= Tarentum, on the inside of the heel of Italy's boot) is very well known and comes with many varieties. We...
That's a beauty! Magnus Maximus is not the most common of emperors.
I had collected late Roman coins quite a few years before I got my first siliqua. I was, and am, a big fan of late Roman AE, but I didn't expect...
A close inspection shows it is misdescribed. It is really "left foot squashing a rabbit running right" as the two big ears show.:happy:
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