I have an extensive library of old catalogs, and it being summer, I have been looking through old catalogs (especially Spink catalogs) and I can...
I have collected fourrées for thirty years. I wrote a website on them in 2002 and it has an extensive bibliography (not updated for about a...
The OP article of July 28 begins "Six statues dating back 2,000 years were discovered Saturday in the ruins of the ancient Greek city of Magnesia,...
The context was at least every Byzantine-empire transaction involving gold. Usually the official strike of a gold coin is regarded as an official...
The OP [original post] CONSTANTINOPOLIS type is historically significant. For a short article on the coin type see:...
Here is a list of many places to buy ancient coins: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/dealers.html
He probably wrote it somewhere, but my statement is from having him tell me personally when I was at the Fitzwilliam in Cambridge.
Whether this is the case has been the subject of scholarly dispute for decades. I know; I was closely involved with numerous die studies and...
Many scholars, including the late Philip Grierson (a Byzantine expert), have asserted that gold was always weighed in transactions. When a coin is...
I think this piece was meant as a decoration, not a coin, and not made for profit. You have all seen a belly dancer with a belt of gold "coins"...
I think the reverse is a European lion left, head facing back, with a bull's head before it.
I like the idea of letting the viewer know the size of the coin. Whether it should be on the photo itself or just in the post is a different...
I have added nice nice Constantinan coins, including four of Crispus, in the last three days: http://augustuscoins.com/Constantinian.html...
No, it was completely intact. I was pointing out that old glass can be very fragile.
The OP shows how hard it is to tell sizes from photos. The middle bronze and the sestertius look alike and it is hard to tell which is which from...
Faustina Jr. has VESTA on asses, too: [ATTACH] 26 mm. 13.02 grams. VESTA around Vesta holding simpulum and Palladium. Sear II 5307. BMC 1004....
I thought it was difficult. Had it not been multiple choice, I would have done much worse than the 8/12 = 67% I got.
No. The term "barbarous radiates" refers to radiate (with a crown of rays) imitations made in the Gallo-Roman empire, most of which are of...
Database. The count in his database.
Over the years I have created some supplements to ancient-coin books I use. Here is a page of links:...
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