"The staurogram is encoded by Unicode in the Coptic block, at U+2CE8⳨Coptic Tau Rho, and as of Unicode 7.0 (2014) also in the Ancient Symbols...
what is in the left field is actually a Staurogram ⳨ (which means monogram of the cross). It is made by superimposing a Tau (T) on a Rho (P) and...
RIC is not wrong, it is just a snapshot of what was seen when it was written. Even then, it did not make claims that all existing examples had...
Your coin is RIC VII Rome 221. It is a scarce type, though I have seen several examples sold over the last few years. Here is a link to a post...
my first Roman coin was a denarius of Caracalla. I used a scanner to take a picture and scanned it upside down, so the light was going the wrong...
It means it is the fourth workshop from the Rome mint P = Prima (1) S = Secunda (2) T = Tertia (3) Q = Quarta (4)
There is also a variation that looks like a rocky nest from Rome, though rare. You should remember it, you took the picture. [ATTACH]
scratches do not mean damnatio memoriae and Vaballathus was never given this treatment anyway as it was reserved for people that had brought...
I don't think it is damnatio memoriae...it's more likely accidental damage
One reason might be that Constantine's half sister Constantia was married to Licinius. Shortly after this incident, Constantine even issued a rare...
Yes, I messaged the seller and explained why the lot had sold for so much...of course, if it had been I.D.'ed prior to listing, he would have...
there were at least two-- [ATTACH]
Yes, it is probably the best coin I have ever "discovered" "Discovered" is in quotes, as I was not the only one that noticed this coin. Not...
The buyer for the museum (who has bought a few coins from me) heard that I had this coin. I posted about it on my LRB forum and there were topics...
Yes, I won it; but I only wanted this coin to catalogue and examine in hand. I was glad, though, to be the intermediary for the museum acquisition.
there are undoubtedly more great finds out there...this one came from an otherwise uninteresting lot from eBay.
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