I agree. We cannot say the quality control was high and every difference was intentional. There is a "Justin" AE4, Hahn's MIBE 34, plate 7, that...
I have one: [ATTACH] 9 mm. 0.80 grams. It is not in Sear, but Hahn, MIBE has it as Justin I, NN67, plate 10, dated to 522-527. I numbered mine...
For the rest of you reading this, don't buy coins on eBay without checking sites like this one first: [link corrected]...
If you need a microscope to decide if a US coin is interesting or not, it isn't. Visit the ancient coin forum where most threads concern history...
I like it for this. I don't want the AE mixed in with the silver. Like, most, almost all my RR coins are silver. I want them together and not...
@seth77 reminded us that Claudius Gothicus (268-27) died of the plague: [ATTACH] VICTORIAE GOTHIC 21-20 mm. 4.34 grams. RIC -- (because of bust...
[ATTACH] My rat goes to the right. 18 mm. 3.95 grams. Sear I 174. Crawford 297/1b (297/1a is rat to the left) "The desultor on the reverse...
Recently I announced a new educational web site on the coins of the First Tetrarchy (Diocletian, Maximian, etc,):...
Maybe some of our members would be interested to know of the existence of this book: [ATTACH] A Seaby book. 186 pages. Averaging about 1 coin...
David Sear wrote a spiral-bound book entitled "The Emperors of Rome and Byzantium" with "Chronological and Genealogical Tables for History...
The CDC site says today: [ATTACH] So, the death rate is about 1 in a thousand for what we call "flu". The death rate for covid-19 is uncertain,...
I have all the major reference works and still I use RCV a lot. I recommend any volume that covers the reader's area of interest. I use all five,...
This is the type of interest that makes ancient numismatics so much fun! We don't know everything and can think about the history and meaning of...
We need to be careful not to conflate two visions into one. The Christian chi-rho vision is more famous, but he also had an earlier vision that...
By the way, that museum is within a few hundred yards of the entrance to the main train station. If you fly to Rome and take the train into the...
Antioch had some impressive portraits of Constantine: [ATTACH] 18-17 mm. 3.19 grams. SMANB RIC VII Antioch 86 "335"
Here is mine: [ATTACH] 8.67 grams. RIC Nicomedia 121 Note the palm(?) branches on either side of "NIKB". This and the other coins show more...
Mike has a point. The first coin of @Alegandron is larger than his second, but the photos show it the other way. Maybe the maximum diameter of the...
If (a big "if") they are dated to 309-310 then the heavier ones are likely the earlier ones. What we are lacking is any reason to think they...
I looked into it using just RIC VI and VII and it seems they have reason to attribute one later SOLI issue to 314-5, but no obvious time...
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