MZ asked about portraits of Marcian. When I saw this one at Baldwin's in London in 1983 I thought it was the nicest AE4 of Marcian I had ever...
Failmezger's book says different mints have different types of trees overhanging the hut. Here is one from Constantinople: [ATTACH] 22 mm. 4.71...
Christian symbolism on Roman coins did not appear until 316 or later, a few years after Constantine's vision and the battle of the Milvian bridge....
Genuine original "desert patina" (I call the orange version "black and tan patina") is common on coins of Antioch. A similar patina, sometimes...
Septimius Severus also issued coins with vows for twenty years: [ATTACH] 19 mm. 3.45 grams. Sear 6393. RIC 308 "202-210", BMC 375 "201-210" Hill...
We have seen two obverses much superior to this one: [ATTACH] but this one at least has the statue of Trajan fully on the flan. RIC 292 (says...
Here is another one with a nice c/m head. [ATTACH] AN, thanks for the associated story. Well done!
I agree with TIF about it being a Septimius Severus founder type. It looks provincial, not imperial. By size it might be, for convenience, called...
An excellent coin. It illustrates why I love tetrarchal folles. They are large and available in beautiful shape. And, I'll bet it did not cost a...
#4, the Galeria Valeria, is terrific.
VIRTVS is a characteristic of manly men. I think maridunum's coin is evidence that its personification can be male. It usually is. Without the...
The reason the coin is small is because it was clipped. Silver was trimmed from the edges. Unclipped issues of that type weigh at least 4 grams.
I have educational web sites on ancient Roman coins. Some are for beginners and others for specialists and some in between. I just changed the...
The reverse is type 18 on the RIC IX page: http://esty.ancients.info/ricix/type18i.html There are three examples there. He is very difficult...
I won a coin on eBay. eBay said I won and I paid with PayPal. I got the usual confirmation. The next day I got a PayPal full refund and a note...
I have used the German version for years. One of the many things to like about it is that is has counts of the numbers of the examples in the huge...
I wrote a long comment, using the link from Peter's blog site. It is not hard to do. Please put in your two cents worth.
If you are interested in Roman Provincial coins, RPC is expensive but a wonderful reference. All the common and scarce types for the early empire...
ISIS is destroying ancient artifacts in Syria....
A while ago any new search of vcoins brought up a sentence in the search box "Search over 271,000 coins." Now the same search says "Search over...
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