That was not a stupid question but a very intriguing one.
This has been talked about before on this site. I believe someone had written that as late as the 19th Century in Western Europe well worn ancient...
Museum quality. Nice acquisition and whatever you paid for it, it was a great buy.
I like your Philip II sestertius. Sad story for that young man. That your coin shows it circulated for some time is actually a plus for me. I like...
Donna, one wastes one's time arguing with conspiracy advocates here or anywhere else. Their minds are made up, no amount of evidence contrary to...
Capuchin?
The obverse reminds me of the Infant of Prague, a popular image of the Christ Child popular in Eastern Europe. The reverse appears to be an image...
I am not that much interested in coinage of the late Roman Empire, but the siliquae of that period are pretty attractive coins and some of the...
Do you know if this book is on line?
I would not buy an ancient coin based on some third party telling me that the coin in question is absolutely guaranteed as ancient. There are so...
I like this coin. I think I have to get one. The SR could stand for some variation of your suggestion, Sestertius Romanus, or alternatively...
Good point on the infrequency of provincial coinage found today in what was the Latin speaking half of the Empire.
I was going over my collection recently and noticed something I had not thought of earlier. What I noticed was that if one pairs Roman Provincial...
Why would there be a "banker's mark" hole in a brass coin?
It may have been a coin struck with rusty dies. I have seen surfaces like this on gold staters issued at the time of Mithradates VI from the...
How does it react to a magnet? Whatever the metal, I love the signet design.
Whatever a collector thinks of these well worn denarii, rest assured the Ancient agrarian recipient of a few of these coins was very happy with...
No, I have no other texts on this subject other than the one cited by the OP.
Excellent leg work, Marsyas Mike. if you permit me, I'd translate those lines as something like, " so that the understanding of the coinage was so...
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