You might buy the books. Starr "Athenian Coinage" is cheap with many coins illustrated on 26 page plates ($25 in reprint on Amazon). Seltman...
Here is a sestertius of Faustina I who died in 141. Struck 147 at Rome. AETER-NITAS, Aeternitas seated left holding phoenix on globe and long...
On the great majority of coins of Constantine he is Augustus (AD 307-337). Less common, and more desirable, are the early issues (306-307) when he...
I have happily visited many museums in Europe and the US with antiquities and enjoyed them. If they had ancient coins on display, that was a big...
Does anyone else wonder if Byzantine copper coins really sell at prices asked on vcoins and US eBay? Yesterday I used this search engine...
This thread was about specialties within specialties. How about minor varieties of one type from one emperor from one mint in the Byzantine...
It is likely that there will shortly be limitations on importing ancient Egyptian coins. You can read about it at Peter Tompa's blog site:...
Jovian lasted eight months, not three, and the mint distribution makes it clear his coinage spread east to west as expected. They are surely not...
There is a way to change a thread title, up near the top of the postings, under "Thread tools." This thread now has an appropriate title.
I have added a web page on the four AE coin types of Jovian, Roman emperor for eight months in 363-4: http://esty.ancients.info/Jovian/Jovian.html...
Thank you for the ID! This is a great forum.
[ATTACH] Here is a headless body, formerly thought to be Medusa, but now thought to be Arnold. :)
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] This coin is a mystery. It was a mystery to the seller and now it is my mystery. I am hoping someone can recognize it. It seems...
I think the "eBay thing you don't know about" is that they are experimenting with visibility in various countries. Things listed outside the US...
Justinian's coins at Antioch: http://esty.ancients.info/interesting/Justinian.html If you don't know the story of the calamities at Antioch...
Zumbly, I would think that if a coin sells for more than the estimate the estimate was an "underestimate," so your worst cases were of...
I just posted a minor web page about long Roman Imperial mintmarks. http://esty.ancients.info/longmm/LongMintmarks.html The Julian coin is new and...
My site: http://esty.ancients.info/imit/ illustrates many ancient imitations and has an extensive annotated bibliography on the "references" page:...
The eBay description says 10 mm and 4.01 grams. Something is wrong about that. The diameter is not enough for the weight. I agree about the likely...
Wow! I don't collect English coins, but that sure is impressive. That's one I wouldn't mind owing. Congratulations!
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