I have an auction sale catalog, M&M GMBH 44 (25 Nov. 2016), which offered 74 lots of individual coins of Lucilla. Most are not high grade, but...
I love the original post for its "WHY?" questions and answers. I think they are just right and many of us would buy those coin types for the same...
Three years ago we had a thread on Santa Claus look-alikes: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/santa-claus.272165/ Surely we have some new coins...
Here is one of the earliest Republican coins, Crawford 17/1a, dated to 273-270 BC: [ATTACH] 19-18 mm, 6.02 grams. Litra. Helmeted head of...
I wrote the OP page on anonymous folles: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ByzAnon/ but I didn't have a high-grade Class A2 example until this one...
Maybe you should not post all of them at once, but I'd love to see a sample (and I don't think I am the only one).
@Curtisimo , they are wonderful coins and their writeups are even better. You don't just own coins, you know them well and have researched them....
I edited my previous post so that it says "Commodus" and is now correct. Why are so many very worn coins offered by one seller? It is possible...
As has been often said on this forum, some images enough to be sure coin is fake, but images are not enough to be certain a coin is genuine....
How often will you update this sheet? It will be nice to know which cities have already been posted.
That OP coin of "Nepotian" is certainly a fake. No doubt at all. Also, if it were genuine it would have gone for five or ten times than much....
As @Orange Julius said, it refers to the orientation of the reverse when the obverse is upright. Hold the coin in your left hand with index finger...
That is a really special coin. The post-abdication issues for Maximian help illustrate his fascinating attempt to return to power. You quoted...
Diocletian (284-305) reformed the coinage c. 293-4 by introducing some new denominations, including the "follis" (possibly known as a "nummis" in...
This Forum site a very good page with monograms and the emperors who used them: http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=monogram...
Here is my coin of Hierapolis Syria with Atargatis: [ATTACH] Philip II, 244-249. 28 mm. 15.73 grams. AVTOK K M IOYΛI ΦIΛIΠΠOC CEB Autocrater...
I think we have determined that if a portrait of a member of the first tetrarchy shows curls in the beard, it is Constantius I. We cannot say that...
That type is quite rare. Most with that design say FEL KART, and even those are not common. Failmezger lists AVCTA KART as rare for the tetrarchs...
You will learn that "higher grade" often means "much higher price." This fact is very significant for the very most desirable top coins. For many...
Theme: Wild beard. [ATTACH] Parthian King Mithradates II, 123-88 BC. Drachm. 18 mm. 4.20 grams. Sellwood 28.7 from the mint of Rhagae. Shore...
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