When you study ancient coins, you interact with ancient history. I have some low-value ancient-history books I am trying to give away:...
If you have followed CT for months you know I like Roman imperial coins with reverses that are unique to a particular person on the obverse. Do...
I wrote a web site on the quadrans denomination, which is similar to and often hard to distinguish from, the semis denomination....
The OP "floating display" worked very well and was attractive, but a bit large for coins at 3 3/4" square. I looked around and found this which is...
Here is a Macedonian shield on a tetrobol from the time of Philip V (c. 187-179 BC) or Perseus (179-168 BC). [ATTACH] 15 mm. 2.00 grams. The lower...
I have a NOBILITAS type on my pages of reverse types unique to a particular emperor: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/unique/unique3.html#NOBILITAS...
It is very helpful when people point out dead links. They are easy to fix and I just fixed this one. A long time ago when @Suarez created his list...
Lot 837 was in the first part. It was a tridrachm of Trajan with three standards on the reverse.
I don't think it is a good image of any emperor. Only Nerva is depicted on coins with a nose like that and rest of the portrait is unlike Nerva....
@DominicP , maybe still another assertion that it is a fake will remove any doubts you have. It is a definitely a poor fake.
Byzantine history is, well, Byzantine. The complicated reign of Constantine VII illustrates it. There are more twists and turns than I can recount...
Long ago, in 2001, I wrote a web page on rarity of ancient coins, largely with US coin collectors in mind....
I enjoyed the historical fiction, The Shadow of God, by Anthony A. Goodman, about the siege of Malta in 1522 by Suleiman the Magnificent. Malta...
@Brian Bucklan , I have one of those too: [ATTACH] I got it from a Kovacs fixed-price list in 1987. Later, Hahn used the photo for a plate coin...
My favorite fictional account of Cicero's life is Robert Harris's trilogy beginning with Imperium. I got it as a stand-alone book and was eager to...
It is a Germanicus, not a Caligula. I think it is authentic.
Mine is much like the OP coin, but with more legend visible on the left and less on the right. [ATTACH] This diobol is 13 mm and 1.23 grams....
Wow! What a wonderful piece! Also, the pedigree is amazingly long and distinguished.
In the 5th century most Roman AE coins are small or very small. The mint of Cherson (in Crimea, a peninsula which projects down into the north...
NAC has a provincial coin with clear perspective: https://www.sixbid.com/browse.html?auction=5926&category=197771&lot=4948026
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