@DonnaML , that's a beautiful collection and looking at all 30 in the tray, each is interesting and worthy of its own story. You could pick any...
The war in the east resulted in victories over Armenians and Parthians. [ATTACH] Lucius Verus denarius. 19 mm. 3.39 grams. L VERVS AVG ARM...
You are welcome. It is awesome. Grab a picture book on Roman history out of the library (look for an ancient-coin book while you are there) or...
Even a small quadrans can have nice lettering: [ATTACH] 18 mm. 2.97 grams. The smallest Roman imperial denomination of the time. Struck under...
I hope it is the second edition, which is far superior to the first. It has much greater coverage of very late Byzantine coins. You will find it...
As Victor noted, it is a "radiate fraction" a.k.a. "post reform radiate" (not a laureate "follis"). Here is a web site on the denomination:...
On page 51 Prier has this obverse (with radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust left and this legend) as 290 (4 examples, but the eagle has tail left)...
Here is a Diadumenian tetradrachm from Antioch. He looks like a boy. [ATTACH] Son of Macrinus, 217-218, he was 9 or 10 during the reign. 26-24...
(American) football is a great sport to watch. You get to look at coin catalogs most of the time because of all the interruptions in play. 60...
I once walked with Bluma Trell to the site of a numismatic meeting. She was coauthor with Martin Price of "Coins and Their Cities: Architecture on...
Experiments have shown that a copper-silver alloy with c. 15% silver and maybe even as low as 10% silver, or more will, when struck, have the...
As far as I know, there are not any books. Over a decade ago I wrote this page about references on imitations of all kinds (not just barbarous...
@Jochen1 , that is a great writeup. Thanks. Here is the sky god Anu as the left figure on the reverse: [ATTACH] Cilicia. Tarsos. Satrap...
That is an excellent example. I agree it is an imitation, remarkably well done. I think there is a significant distinction between barbarous...
[ATTACH] Here's mine, however with officina Θ. 14 mm. RIC VIII 22 "330 AD" Bought at Baldwin's in London in 1988.
I have a website on Byzantine coins from the Cherson mint (at Sevastopole in Crimera in the north Black Sea)....
Here is one with a flan significantly larger than the die. [ATTACH] Justinian, Antioch (as Theoupolis) mint, year 33 (559/560) The flan is 39-34...
The esylum newsletter (of the Numismatic Bibliomania Society) https://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum.html reports "On July 30, 2020 Cultural...
acsearch lists auction coins. Very common coins are underrepresented because they are usually not worth enough to warrant an individual lot in an...
[ATTACH] Here is a similar Aurelian, but with obverse legend IMP AVRELIANVS AVG (not "IMP C ...") 27-20 mm. 3.42 grams. (Old) RIC V.I 60...
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