The story of the OP type is told here: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Byz/ConVII.html Read it and you will see why coins of Romanus I are sometimes...
When in Rome collectors will want to see the Coliseum and the Forum. Near, but not in, the Forum is the Capitoline museum with its hall of...
It sure is. Two people wanted the best and only one of them got it. Two figures on the reverse is common; three with Victory in the middle is...
My local US-coin dealer rarely gets any ancients, even though he evaluates many estate collections. My area of the world is more interested in...
Sometimes it is useful to distinguish between coin and type when calling coins "the same."
Leo VI was the elder son of Byzantine emperor Basil I and assumed the throne in 886 when Basil died. Alexander was the younger son. [ATTACH]...
An English dealer I knew sold this coin to me on eBay in 2010. [ATTACH] Maximian, struck c. 300-303. 25 mm. 9.86 grams. RIC VI Ticinum 45b...
Alan Walker of Nomos ( https://nomosag.com/ ) wrote a followup on cultural property to the comments I quoted in the original post. Here it is,...
As @Curtisimo noted, Aelius was governor of Pannonia. This type of sestertius explicitly connects Aelius to Pannonia. [ATTACH] 30 mm. L AELIVS...
The OP coin is a vota type. Here is a site with more than you want to know about vota coins: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/VOTA/ Vows for year 15,...
"Lunacy" is right. We recently had this thread: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/which-coin-is-a-better-investment.347257/ where a 1945-D nickel...
This is a 28 mm AE "medallion" of Gratian. 8.68 grams. [ATTACH] RIC IX has it listed as "Medallic coins and AE1" 42a "R4" on page 125, with one...
No, it is just a regular Alexandrian tetradrachm with an unusual reverse. However, that series is littered with many unusual reverses. It is...
Some of the most common Greek silver coins of fractional denominations are from Kyzikos (Cyzicus) with the forepart of boar with tunny behind /...
[ATTACH] Hieron II, 274-216 (There were no term limits in those days) 27 mm. 18.72 grams. Sear Greek 1221. Rutter says this may belong to the...
I have added ancient coins to my main page and other pages: http://augustuscoins.com/index.html Here are two of the tetrarchy, the rarest (not in...
Another FIL AVG [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Constantine, with FIL AVG(G) on both sides! Only from Antioch. If you want to know about FIL AVG coins, see:...
Coins of Antiochus I and Antiochus II can be extremely similar. Both issued the OP type with the same portrait of Antiochus I. Somehow the experts...
It is very hard to tool silver without obvious marks. I don't see the tooling. Where is it?
Send him to "Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Ancient Coins" at this URL: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/numis/ If you have a lousy...
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