Because all of her coins are "DIVA" she must have been dead by the time Maximinus became emperor. That made it harder for die engravers to know...
I think so too. I wrote this page on it: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ricix/ and selected my username from it. Here is a scare type of...
I recommend Arab-Byzantine Coins: An Introduction, with a Catalogue of the Dumbarton Oaks Collection (Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Collection...
Weights of provincials can be very erratic. This goes double for coins that are not silver and don't have precious-metal value anyway, so they...
@Severus Alexander , I really like the whole group. There is life after Roman and Greek coins! All of them are interesting. I guess I "need" a...
After getting a few quinarii I decided to learn about them. The results are on my web page: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/quinarius/ Here is one:...
I added some coins to my page on coins of Valentinian and later http://augustuscoins.com/Valentinian.html and reduced prices on all the other...
Here is a page of late Roman reverse types: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ricix/ and who issued them, with examples. Yours is type 39, somewhat...
@Tejas , that one is gorgeous!
Once I bought a gorgeous Hadrian sestertius with a good reverse type that I knew was somewhat tooled. I grew to hate it and sold it (being clear...
The reverse of the OP coin has "S C" very off-center. Banti & Simonetti, volume XI, pages 236-258 illustrates 80 examples from old sale catalogs....
Yes, if you have any interest in Byzantine coins. I have a large ancient-coin library and use Sear's Byzantine Coins and their Values a lot. If...
As we can tell from the large surviving number of ancient coins from the mid-third century and the die studies of Roman coins that have been done,...
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