I think it is okay to be confused by our terms for various ancient-coin denominations. What you really need to know most is the diameter, so you...
Not only is that a great coin, it is a great post! Thank you very much for your extensive comments. That coin type sure has an interesting...
Theme: Sagittarius [ATTACH] 29-27 mm. 8.50 grams. Artuqids of Mardin (Mardin is a city in eastern Turkey very close to the border with Syria)...
[ATTACH] 31 mm. Husam al din Yuluq Arslan, struck 596 AH = 1199/1200 AD, vasal of two Ayyubids: Al Afdal Ali and Calif al Nasir Figure seated...
[ATTACH] Claudius, 41-54 One of the twelve Caesars 27-25 mm. 9.77 grams. Struck 41-50 TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG PM TRP IMP head left Minerva...
I think it is the type AE4. VICTORIA AVGG(G) Victory advancing left with wreath and palm, sometimes with christogram in right field 410-423,...
Here is another example of Commodus/Zeus Ammon: [ATTACH] 25-24 mm. 10.44 grams. Year 23 = 182/3. Geissen volume 3, 2225. Forschner 747-8 for...
That is a very nice coin and an excellent writeup. I love it when people post information with their photos. Here are two of that design, one...
That is a very nice coin. Here is a hairstyle from Serdica: [ATTACH] 25 mm. 6.21 grams. Galeria Valeria VENERI V-ICRICI •SM•SD• ✳ in left...
Let's admit it. Many dies for Roman Republican denarii are not particularly well engraved. I could show some that are close to cartoonish. But,...
[ATTACH] AE22. 6:00. 6.40 grams Constans Well-engraved designs and mostly correct obverse letters and legend, but with incorrect reverse letters....
The scientific method! Excellent idea! Take before and after photographs. You can't rely on memory to tell you what they looked like before...
Don't.
Ah! The 64-dollar question. I suggest an alloy: 20 parts copper and one part silver. In the late 1980's I began a draft of an article on the...
[ATTACH] Here is a rare Constantine commemorative: 15 mm. 1.46 grams. DV CONSTAN-...PT AVGG veiled had right IVSTIA VEN MEMOR, Aequitas...
Suppose "XXI" meant "1 of these is 20 of some smaller unit." Then "XI" would mean "1 of these is 10 of some smaller unit" (and those XI coins...
He has a diadem (not a crown). The obverse legend ends "AVG". The reverse ends "AVGG" for two Augusti, Constantine and Licinius. Constantine II...
It is a beauty. Coins of Alexander the Great check all the boxes: history, old, big, silver, beautiful. You gotta love them!
Yes. [ATTACH] Above is an "XXI" equivalent with "KA". Tacitus (275-276) CLEMENTIA TEMP, Mars standing left holding olive branch in right, spear...
This has been proven false. Doug's explanation is correct. You can read about XI and XXI in an academic article here:...
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