From the pictures I can't read the legend (it's going to be something like ΣAPΔIANΩN + magistrate name), but it's a coin from Sardes in Lydia,...
I think it's an interesting but very open question of how that actually worked in practice. Fake coins were common, and people doubtless passed...
Not the OP coin, but here's my example (also shown above but here's just the tag, too). This one might've been encapsulated ~10 years ago, so I'd...
I used to enjoy collecting fourrees and had a good variety. (I still like them, I just don't seek them out, though I bought a little bag of...
Oooh, can't let that pass without comment! Spiral-decorated shield on an FH!!! Love that one. Does it matter which Antioch? Lucius Verus from...
Bull and horse... And another from Thessaly, at that! [ATTACH] NEXT: ANY ALEXANDER BESIDES # III, "THE GREAT"
Note: Also sharing this answer in another thread... Keeping notes ... That is something I definitely do! Not sure how well these screenshots will...
Hemidrachm [ATTACH] Drachm [ATTACH] Tetradrachm [ATTACH] Stater [ATTACH] Not shown: 3 AE "Unit," half unit, quarter unit of Herakles/bow &...
Oh, thank you much, I'll update my notes! I searched around where I could but never found another clear example. Looks like they may all be...
Congratulations on your find at ANA! I've always liked the coins of Crispus for some reason but I'm not quite sure why. Here's my most recent...
Next: Ram [ATTACH] Caria, Hekatomnos (?) AR Hemitetartemorion (Milesian standard, 4mm, 0.12g), Uncertain mint, c. 392-377 BCE. Obv: Head of...
Probably my favorite boar, a little obol from Caria, Euromos: [ATTACH] Caria, Euromos AR Hemiobol (8 mm, 0.50 g, 10 h). Obv: Forepart of a boar...
Antiochos IV was the son of Antiochos III but was apparently still seen by some as having usurped his brother Demetrius I. Galley prow behind...
Oh, that is fantastic! I'm a collector of FEL TEMP REPARATIOs and captives/barbarian coins especially, but I don't think I ever knew of this type....
Before-and-after photos of Titus denarius with Curule reverse. Previously in the A. Short Collection (already cut), and before that Jyrki Muona,...
Now: Mt. Argaios Countermark. NEXT: FIRST CENTURY ROMAN PROVINCIAL (or another Mt. Arg. anytime!) Here's a little Britannicus from...
PLEASE KEEP SHARING CAPTIVES &/OR TROPHIES! It's been a while, but seeing as new threads aren't exactly proliferating, I figured I'd share some...
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I just got a copy of Malter's 1995 Byzantine numismatic bibliography (the second vol. 27 years after the first!), and noticed that it included a...
Thank goodness the reverse survived & it was the obverse that got corroded! (Not that it's really a super rarity.) You're definitely right. I...
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