This thread is old but one devoted to Gorgon types, so the most relevant thread for this coin. [ATTACH] AE16. 4.47 grams. Macedonian shield with...
[ATTACH] AE18. 4.17 grams. Suessa Aurunca, Campania, Italy. 280-268 BC. Helmeted Athena head left. Rooster right Next: Campania
Oops! Others beat me to it. I was responding to @dougsmit . [ATTACH] Augustus/Rhoematalkes, c. 11 BC - AD 12. King of Thrace. 19 mm. 4.10 grams....
True. It was cast. The vast majority of official ancient coins were not cast, so they form an exception.
Here is a bold Alexander the Great (336-323 BC) tetradrachm: [ATTACH] 24 mm. 17.13 grams. Head of Hercules in lion-skin headdress right Zeus...
Aretas IV and Shaqilath, c. 9 BC - 40 AD. [ATTACH] 18-16 mm. 3.54 grams. Nabataen letters for "whole" unit. Crossed cornucopiae. Legend in three...
Yes, it is, according to Rule 3 on http://augustuscoins.com/ed/tetrarchy/distinguishing.html
This coin is an aurelianus (a.k.a. antoninianus), a pre-reform radiate. Galerius became Caesar in 293, only a short time before this denomination...
Maxentius has numerous rare types. Here is one: [ATTACH] Maxentius. 25-24 mm. 6.97 grams. Struck mid to late 309. VICTORIA AETERNA AVG N MOSTP...
A friend asked me about why some coins of Galerius did not have "Galerius" on them. Good question. I created a web page about how to distinguish...
Here is the page: [ATTACH]
This coin has grapes! It is from Soloi in Cilicia: [ATTACH] 20-19 mm. 10.84 grams. Amazon kneeling on left knee examining bow with both hands,...
By "auction" do you mean eBay? The quality and likely value of that coin is below the usual auction-firm minimum. I have seen Arcadius AE2s that...
Metcalf (D. M., not William E.) proposed the existence of Class A3 in Metcalf, D. M. "Interpretation of the Byzantine Rex Regnantium folles of...
They are not pictured in the book. So, perhaps you mean the types of those coins as opposed to those particular coins. So, can you tell the list...
I don't think modern scholarship agrees with this. Scholars doing experiments find it easy to strike coins cold and the advantages are obvious....
By the way, if we do go to the summer ANA in Chicago, be aware that google maps and some google searches do not find the closest hotels (which,...
I vote for this one. I have been to the summer ANA "World's Fair of Money" several times and it is always good for ancients. Furthermore, it has a...
About Class A3. Class A2 began c. 976 and lasted until 1025 or maybe 1034 [Grierson]. That's 50 years. Fifty! It is no wonder that inflation made...
@TIF answered the OP question. Here is a site on anonymous folles: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ByzAnon/ I wish people would no longer attribute...
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