I am honored to have been the fortunate new temporary custodian of your coin from Alexandria, James. Constantine the Great AE Follis [IMG] 309 -...
It's in the seller's photos, I can also confirm. It helped to increase brightness and contrast. You can see the crack on the obverse: [IMG]...
Double strikes :)
Quite right. How silly of me. I have corrected the image.
I absolutely adore error coins. Constantine the Great AE Follis [IMG] 316 A.D., Rome Mint, 3rd Officina 3.72g, 19.0mm, 12H Obverse: IMP...
Ah, yes. My favorite collecting theme. Maximian AE Follis [IMG] 295 A.D., Treveri Mint, 2nd Officina 10.55g, 27.0mm, 12H Obverse: IMP MAXIMIANVS...
That is indeed the King of all Irregular Flans. Boy, I wonder how bad the flogging for that one was. I am very fond of flan irregularities of...
Thanks, Doug! Your webpages really did help me get started with collecting. I remember just browsing through each and every page at the beginning...
Good observations. Looks a lot like the coin was struck with clashed dies. https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=clashed dies...
The minutia are quite interesting if you get to understand them. There are marks on coins with meanings yet to be deciphered on these. A vast sea...
In general, if an officina is marked on the coin, it is done so by either greek or latin letters or numerals signifying some number. @dougsmit...
Looks a lot like my example. The exergue is actually RT, although the R does indeed look like an A. It's from the Rome Mint, third workshop (or...
Maybe it was the constant shock of having just lost two-thirds of the Empire.
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I guess a bunch of these would make one of your argenteus. It's my favourite coin from the great city of Karthago. Love the lion on this one:...
That argenteus from Karthago is just a beaut. Quite a catch, Victor!
I really do love the sand-cast flans these tetradrachmas are struck on. The Alexandrian style is also quite nice. Must be due to my Roman Egyptian...
It is indeed quite tragic. I couldn't imagine how it would have been to have your head chopped off in the city center of one of the largest of the...
These coins are simply out of this world.
Those are some exquisite coins. I laughed quite a bit when I learned how to properly pronounce the Emperor Pupienus' name.
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