Here is a large Claudius sestertius with a countermark from "the early years of Nero" [BMC p.xxxi] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Very large at 36 mm and...
There is a book, "Dated Coins of Antiquity" by Edward E. Cohen, that discusses almost all explicitly dated Greek (not Roman) types from antiquity...
Some types are much less rare than they used to be and sometimes a type that was rare in 1990 is worth far less now than it was then. Here is a...
Here is one more. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] As many have observed, it is very hard to get a trachy with a good strike, but this issue has some relatively...
Hadrian, as. Struck 132-134. [ATTACH] 26-24 mm. 12.30 grams. HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS CLEMENTIA AVG COS III PP BMC 1436, an imperial virtue. Sear...
The slice marks on the back of the head and in the veil don't look like deposits. They look like the slices exposed copper beneath. Let us know...
I think it is a fourree, an ancient imitation.
My class A1 is 22-24 mm and 5.74 grams. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Many A2's are much heavier than 9 grams and 30 mm or more in diameter (some up to about...
I'm glad to see someone so deeply into a specialty (especially one I do not collect).
About the original CAESAR coin. If the bottom-left of the photo on the left is opposite the left of the coin on the right, here is a proposed...
Zumbly showed an example of the rarest FTR type.
The biggest difference between the various numbered subclasses of "Class A" anonymous folles is that A1 is distinctly smaller and lighter (It has...
As Doug noted, in the Byzantine period the Roman "V" for 5 began to be shaped more like a modern "U". Take a look at this 5-nummia piece of...
Where does your essential spirit, your GENIVS, reside? Your heart? Your gut? Your head? Apparently the Romans considered it to be in the back...
There is good reason to collect FEL TEP REPARATIO types. They are inexpensive. They have good size. If condition is your criterion, they can be...
DIVO SEVERO PIO [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Different reverses: Eagle on globe; pyre, with facing quadriga on top; draped throne with wreath on seat.
I think grading ancients on a single scale is impossible and discussion of it is tiring. There is no good parallel with grading US coins on the...
If you want to turn them into money, you won't get much. The Galerius is worth maybe $2 and the Phocas more, if it can be cleaned of green spots...
I have for sale some great reference works at http://augustusmath.hypermart.net/numislit.html The newest ones are listed here. Shipping in the...
It might have the facing bust of a lion, with the top at 4:00. Ionia, Miletos.
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