What an incredible opportunity that was! My guess is that the owner had a friend or family member who happened to have some coins that he or she...
That's a very attractive coin with very nice patina and a beautiful, bold strike for this type!
It's possible. Phocas is wearing a consular robe on the obverse of the Antioch follis very much in the same style of Maurice Tiberius. Here's...
It certainly does! Thanks for posting.
I do have quite a few bronze Byzantine coins, acquired recently and in years past, many of them pleading to be researched and properly labeled....
First Jewish Revolt, 1/8 shekel, year 4, 69/70 AD 5.2 grams [ATTACH] First Jewish Revolt, shekel, year 2, 67–68 AD 13.7 grams [ATTACH]...
Interesting coin! Was it issued during an uprising against Rome? Its fabric, although crude, seems to be imitating a denarius of that time. As...
Very nice! I like the earthen deposits set against the dark brown patina.
It cannot be said, with credulity, that Phocas was a benign emperor. His murder of Maurice Tiberius in 602 AD was the best way to start his rule....
I suppose. It's not the kind of photo you'd post on a dating website. He was my uncle Louie. The story is that he ended up murdered in Chicago,...
Found out that I am related to this guy, in the federal pen, back in who-knows-when, courtesy of Ancestry.com. Enough said. [ATTACH]
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