@Victor_Clark , to get one with a shield and something on it is cool. To get a new device is even cooler. I have some "VICTORIAE LAETAE PRINC...
I just added some ancient coins to my $5-$15 page: http://augustuscoins.com/inexpensive.html I also some to my "Valentinian and later" page:...
When I first saw this I didn't answer because I was uncertain about the "cross". I am confident the coin is authentic. I personally think the ones...
This forum lists twenty threads on the main page. Tonight I noticed that all twenty were added to in the last five hours. Threads that have not...
I second TIF's remarks. I also looked and the countermarks TIF noted that Howgego has on coins of Iotape don't look much like the one you have....
During the early third century AD the Koinon ("League" of cities) of Macedonia struck coins under the Romans. Here is one from the league dated to...
The previous posts have told the story. [ATTACH] 19 mm. Domitian. Struck AD 73. The reverse has an elegance from its simplicity and lack of...
Hey @Blake Davis , that is a great quote! I will put it on my site and thank you. It is one of those connections to history that make coins so...
Cilicia is that coastal part of Turkey at the northeast end of the Mediterranean Sea. Prior to Alexander the Great it was under the control of...
Here is a travel type that does not fit into the "ADVENTVS" or "PROFECTIO" categories discussed here recently. [ATTACH] Welcome to Egypt....
The weights of cast coins tend to be far more variable than the weights of struck coins. There is no way to prepare their flans to the right...
Welcome, John! This forum is very friendly and we often recommend web sites written by collectors who have attempted to answer questions that new...
I have just posted an educational web site on ADVENTVS types: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/PROFECTIO/ADVENTVS.htm ADVENTVS means "arrival" and...
A member of the CoinForgeryDiscussionList https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/CoinForgeryDiscussionList/info?yguid=116957790 lamented that...
@Black Friar , your example of the first-year Justin II is much nicer than mine: [ATTACH] 33 mm. 19.35 grams. Justin II (565-578) Sear 378....
It is published by Spink. When I had difficulty finding volume II I wrote them and they had it.
Here is an Arab-Sasanian coin of Ubei Dalliah Ibn Zaid (55-67 AH) [ATTACH] 33 mm. 4.16 grams. 3:00 die axis. Struck year 61 = 680/681 AD,...
There is a two-volume work that does exactly this for Greek coins. Testimonia Numaria by John Melville Jones has "Texts and Translations" in...
I just got an impressive half-follis of Justinian. The story begins with the coin reform of 538. In year 12 (AD 538/9) of Byzantine emperor...
@ancientcoinguru showed a book by Harl. I say this about it on my web page: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/numis/learnmore.html " Many collectors...
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