My page: http://esty.ancients.info/catalogs/GreekAE.html notes two sales of Virzi coins: Leu 6 (5/73) HV. MQP. "Sammlung Tom Virzi, New...
I have a friend, Dan Clark, who collected early Byzantine copper coins with the unusual feature that above the normal bust right was a cross not...
Previous posters are right. The unbroken legend makes it Valentinian II. Is it not in King's volume 5 of Roman Silver Coins? (I am away from my...
4to2centBC, thanks for posting the photos. If any of you ever get to Cambridge, England, there is a relatively unknown large gallery there, not...
I see that as of yesterday (March 24, 2016) acsearch.com https://www.acsearch.info/ no longer gives prices realized without a paying subscription...
Here's my she-wolf pediment: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Apparently several of us have this type in high grade.
If I might bid on a coin, you won't hear about it until after I have won it, if I do, and it has arrived in the mail. I don't want to drive up...
How about this one? Do you recognize what it could have been? [ATTACH] It was issued at Alexandria (ALE) by Domitius Domitianus. The eagle is...
See Type 52 on the page about AE types from RIC IX: http://esty.ancients.info/ricix/ It likes the OP coin has a legend break -VS which belongs...
On this site about Christian types http://esty.ancients.info/Christian/ChristianSymbols.html the Helena and Theodora are in Table 2 near the...
The left one is Helena.
Here is mine. This thread has illustrated the profile severed head nicely (especially Carthago's piece and Doug's second piece). [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I always appreciate Doug's descriptions of his thought processes. Thanks for telling us about the show.
FEL TEMP REPARATIO is a very common late Roman legend, but less so on coins of Magnentius. Here is a "galley" type: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] 23 mm....
Focus--schmocus! Who needs to focus when there are so many attractive and interesting new things?
"Billion" is a number. "Billon" is the alloy we are discussing.
Omegaraptor, CoinTalk has hundreds of pages of discussion threads. Many mention beginning collecting and the cost of coins. I'd recommend going...
I have added a "type set" page http://esty.ancients.info/ricix/type7i.html on the AE coins of Procopius (AD 365-366) to my educational site on...
Theodosius II (402-450) is a late Roman emperor hard to come by in good shape. I have collected them for decades and am passing some along:...
It is gold over base metal--a fourree. Is this type always fourree?
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