Well... I don't understand. They did not forget the buyer's commission, after all? Their error is they mistakenly believed they forgot it, and...
Errare humanum est. You say they are just beginners in the business, they are likely to make errors. What bad publicity? It's not like they had...
I think iterum means : "for the second time".
It is surely accidental, I know no example of extra symbol carved on purpose at this place on the obverse die. Die rust would have been...
Ah OK I did not understand precisely what you meant. There is even more. The obelisk which is now Piazza Navona was commissioned in Egypt by...
Very nice denarius ! But it was not struck at Rome. In 84-83 Sulla was not in Rome but in south Italy, preparing his troops for the storming of...
Was it so new? There are many representations of Roman emperors as pharaohs before Domitian. This pharaoh, from a wall of the temple of Kom Ombo,...
I don't know if there is a method for authenticating ancient coins. If there was, it would be easier to hire coin-experts. Just 2 months training...
[ATTACH] Commodus, sestertius. The rev. exergue is Fid(es) exerc(itus) but the type is an adlocutio. NEXT : a reverse with more than 3 people.
Grading ancient coins reminded me of this textbook in "Dead Poets Society", in which Dr Pritchard PhD explained the method for evaluating poetry....
I do not pay much attention to the potential financial value of coins. Yes I know, this can sound idealist but I'm now too old to change my...
This 2 solidi coin was something exceptional, it may have been minted very soon after Valentinian's election in 364. The reverse shows the...
Superb! Struck in Antioch... Congratulations ! deserves to be published...
It is not Maximianus Herculius, it is Galerius.
The marble fragment with RO[...] is 0.70 x 1.35 m. Height of letters: 0.38 m. If Romae et Augusto was written in full letters, the whole panel...
[ATTACH] Tiberius caesar, dupondius minted in Lugdunum (Lyons, France). AE 27-28 mm, 12.43 g. 12-14 AD. Obv.: TI CAESAR AVGVST F IMPERAT VII,...
[ATTACH] Seleucid Empire, Antiochus VI Dionysos (144-142 BC), AR drachm, 18 mm, 3.69 g. Obv.: head of Antiochus VI diademed and radiate, right...
I am not sure you can refer to the "Imperial Aramaic alphabet" reproduced on this plate. This script is a library script for writing on papyrus,...
Where is it possible to get a copy of vol.IV? I would specially like to read Lloyd Taylor's Alexander Decadrachms.
Nice and rare coin, but where did you find it? This Halloween patina (orange and black) is curious. The obv. legend is slightly blundered. "ΑVΩ"...
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