I just added two more pages to my site "Introduction to Roman coins of the First Tetrarchy": http://augustuscoins.com/ed/tetrarchy/ which I...
This hoard was written about in 2016. It was found in Sevilla, Spain and I have had something about it on my site for beginners since then....
How big are they? What are their diameters?
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You showed one. I'd like to see more of them; I bet other members would too.
Other sites from the OP that are not working Antiqua Black Mountain Coins Chi Rho coins has only a broken link to eBay There may be more that...
I am announcing a new educational site, "Introduction to Roman Coins of the First Tetrarchy: Diocletian, Maximian, Constantius, and Galerius."...
I wrote this about coins as an investment. It begins with a short discussion of investing in coins in general and ends with more attention to...
I have this Samarian "owl": [ATTACH] It is tiny at 9-8 mm and 0.78 grams. His has a helmeted head of Athena right and an owl with outspread...
That is a pretty nice Caligula. 2000-year old copper often has some surface corrosion and this one may have had some "smoothed," but it came out...
Like everyone else, I'd prefer to avoid tooled and smoothed coins. Significant tooling is very bad, but for some types, like sestertii, smoothing...
It is again that time of year for me. I just renewed my "supporter" status. CoinTalk is an important part of my life and well-worth the $29 a year...
I just changed my avatar to the obverse of this follis of Diocletian which is a new acquisition. The reverse type is very common, but the obverse...
That group has a lot of nice coins would make a significant collection of Republican coins for someone else. We are all at different stages in our...
The octopus makes it special. Who doesn't want a coin with an octopus?
We all know that coins in better condition cost more--sometimes a lot more. Not long ago we had a thread in which a US nickel in MS68+ was $25,000...
Everybody know that Sol drives across the sky in a chariot: [ATTACH] Maximinus II, 305-310-313. 24 mm. 8.42 grams. Helmeted bust left holding...
I just checked mine and it is okay.
Excellent post! I enjoyed the 2007 book Justinian's Flea by William Rosen. It subtitle is "Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe." It covers...
Sometimes I have two coins of the same type and I reduce them to one by passing along the second. But, sometimes they have differences which make...
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