I suspect you can blame that on the availability of coins on the internet, plus the decline of US-coin collecting. When I was young, long ago,...
The OP Hadrian looks authentic to me.
[ATTACH] Panticapaeum, North Black Sea region 21-20 mm. High obverse relief. Struck c. 314-310 BC. Bearded head of Pan (satyr) right with pointed...
The coin is ugly. The reverse is not particularly interesting. There are thousands (of Probus varieties. Many varieties are quite beautiful, or a...
This statement does not need correction--because it is true. I have seen several Gallus in very bad shape, and now this very nice one, and no...
This is not quite stated right. Licinius was normal for the times and normal was with a short military beard. Constantine was different. He was...
The OP coin has reference ID RIC VI Thessalonica 61b "c. 312-313." The reason he has a beard is the mint was under the control of Licinius, not...
I have the "Collection Claudius Côte" sale "Monnies de Tarente" offered by Ratto in 1929. There are many varieties of the "boy on a dolphin" basic...
My preference is to give the largest and smallest "diameters" to the nearest mm. If I say a coin is "21-19 mm," you know it is slightly out of...
For Maximinus, year 4 (TRP IIII) is the rarest of that type. Your example is outstanding. Here is my page on the coins of Maximinus Thrax with...
and make the point very well. They really do look alike, don't they!
I added some denarii of Caracalla (196-217) to my site, Augustus Coins (at the top): http://augustuscoins.com/index.html Look closely at them....
Roman Coins and Their Values, by David Sear had, through the fourth single-volume edition, for each emperor a table of dates for all the TRP...
Yes. In RIC volume IV, part I, on pages 248-252, there are 8 antoninianus types with the same explicit year-18 legend. Look for the TRP XVIII. It...
We had a good thread on Caracalla a while back: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/my-favorite-roman-portrait-caracalla.323539/ The thrust of this...
I got this argenteus from the recent Leu web auction 5. [ATTACH] Constantius I, 293-306 18 mm. 2.87 grams. Struck as Caesar. CONSTANTI-VS...
I started this thread by announcing a web site on Byzantine anonymous folles. http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ByzAnon/ Almost all the site is...
The scale (balance) on your Republican coin is wonderful! I look forward to the writeup. Any AEQVITAS can have a crude balance: [ATTACH] Philip...
Here is a slabbed Vetranio (March 25 - Dec. 25, 350), less than one year. Heritage just sold one for $384:...
Agreed!
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